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• The Y2Y vision was founded in 1993 in Alberta, Canada.
• More than 35 staff work in five American states, two Canadian provinces, two Canadian territories, and at least 75 Indigenous territories. Our head office us in Canmore, Alberta.

• Our mission is to connect and protect habitat from Yellowstone to Yukon so people and nature can thrive.
• Our approach to conservation relies on science, activism and collaboration.
• Since 1993 we have worked with more than 735  partners, including scientists, conservation groups, landowners, government agencies, Indigenous governments and communities, and businesses to progress our mission.

• The Yellowstone to Yukon region stretches 2,100 miles (3,400 km) from south of Yellowstone National Park to Yukon in Canada’s north.  See maps and read more about the region.
• This is one of the few remaining large mountain areas of connected habitat left on Earth.
• It is home to the full suite of wildlife species since the ice age ended.
• The region’s narrowest point is British Columbia’s (B.C.) Peace River area.
• Water from this region sustains millions of people across western North America.
• Home to two major zones where grizzly bears are known to cross the U.S.-Canada border: Crown of the Continent ecosystem (Montana-Alberta) and the Cabinet-Purcell Mountain Corridor (Idaho-B.C.)
• The reason we work on such a large landscape is because wildlife show us this is what they need to succeed.
• Due to the unique scale of our work many other organizations across North America and on other continents have been inspired to do similar work including Algonquin to Adirondacks Collaborative (A2A) and Baja to Bering Strait (B2B), a marine environment conservation initiative.

Explore our map to learn more about this diverse, dynamic region.

Access the shapefiles on Databasin for research and mapping:

• The Yellowstone-to-Yukon region boundary
• Y2Y’s 11 priority areas