Where are we working?

The Living Landscapes Program is a pilot program of the Wildlife Conservation Society to help develop cost-effective conservation tools that prevent or minimize human/wildlife conflicts within landscapes defined by the needs of wildlife.

Today we are working in twelve core sites in Bolivia, Congo, Ecuador, Guatemala, Belize, Mongolia, Tanzania, Cambodia, Argentina, Coastal Patagonia, and two sites in North America. We work in these sites because they represent large, relatively intact ecosystems of global biodiversity conservation. These sites are all considered important conservation sites, based on one or more global priority setting exercises (Hotspots, Global 200 Ecoregions, Last Wild Places, World Heritage Sites, Endemic Bird Areas, Ramsar sites). By applying the same suite of tools and approaches at these terrestrial and aquatic, tropical, moist and arid sites, we will enhance the conservation status of a diversity of globally significant sites, and be able to customize and fine tune conservation tools to make them most effective under a broad range of biological, socio-political and geo-physical contexts.

Madidi Living Landscape, Bolivia

Ndoki-Likouala Conservation Area, Republic of Congo 

Greater Yasuní-Napo Moist Forest Landscape Conservation Area, Ecuador

Maya Biosphere Reserve, Guatemala

Glover’s Reef Living Seascape, Belize

The Eastern Steppe Living Landscape, Mongolia

Rungwa-Ruaha Landscape, Tanzania

Northern Plains Landscape, Cambodia

San Guillermo, Argentina

Patagonia Sea and Sky

Greater Yellowstone Area 

Adirondack State Park