Priorities
- Wildlife Corridors
- Ensuring wildlife have safe migration pathways to move through the lands adjacent to and between protected areas such as national parks.
- Grizzly Bear Conservation Strategy
- This is the most extensive, large-landscape grizzly bear conservation effort in the world. The goal of the strategy is to make sure that grizzly bears have adequate core habitats to sustain viable populations, and that bears – and other wide-ranging wildlife – can move safely between core habitats.
- Avian Conservation Strategy
- The Y2Y region is a critical migratory pathway for birds. 275 species of birds spend all or part of their life cycle in the Y2Y region. This strategy, which is currently being finalized, uses 20 focal species to represent the needs of 109 species of concern.
- Aquatic Conservation Strategy
- Nearly 40 percent of fish species in North American streams, rivers and lakes are now in jeopardy, according to the most detailed evaluation of the conservation status of freshwater fishes in the last 20 years. Y2Y is in the process of establishing a watershed-based approach to conserving the river ecosystems and fishes of the Y2Y region.
Read more about this topic: Yellowstone To Yukon Conservation Initiative
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