Communities & Conservation - Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

together for the wild

The Communities & Conservation team helps communities understand, embrace and expand practices that promote safety, coexistence and harmony between people and wildlife.

Both communities and wildlife thrive when the needs of both are met.

Y2Y engages a wide range of communities for solutions that benefit people and nature. This includes working with residents and decision makers to support key planning decisions, partnering with recreation and tourism organizations to limit the impacts of those industries on the land, and collaborating with local communities to listen, learn and implement solutions that promote human-wildlife coexistence.

together, we are:

promoting human-wildlife coexistence

providing support and resources to help communities and landowners in the Y2Y region understand, embrace, and adopt practices that promote harmonious coexistence with wildlife.

improving recreation management

working with land-managers and the outdoor recreation sector to better plan and manage recreation to minimize impact on wildlife and support people to enjoy the places and activities they love.

encouraging funding to support coexistence

working with local, regional, Indigenous and state and provincial governments to advocate for policies and funding that make best practices for living with wildlife standard across the region.

conservation through collaboration

working collaboratively with landowners, communities, governments, business, and other non-profits towards innovative conservation solutions.

Invested more than $60 million in new community conservation funding across the region to support local projects

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Invested more than $60 million in new community conservation funding across the region to support local projects

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Yellowstone to Yukon region
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Protected areas
Currently in the Yellowstone to Yukon region, Indigenous communities manage or co-manage more than 25% of the existing protected lands

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Currently in the Yellowstone to Yukon region, Indigenous communities and governments manage or co-manage more than 25% of existing protected lands including examples in Yukon and Northwest Territories

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Peel watershed in Yukon Territory
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Nahanni and Náátsʼihchʼoh National Park Reserve of Northwest Territories
Reduced wildlife-human conflict by helping partners install 37 bear-proof food storage lockers in campgrounds within the Selkirk grizzly bear recovery zone

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Reduced wildlife—human conflict by helping partners install 37 bear-proof food storage lockers in campgrounds within the Selkirk grizzly bear recovery zone

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Selkirk grizzly bear recovery zone

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