Collaborative Conservation
What we offer:
Partnerships - We cultivate, assemble, and facilitate vital partners that build your resource and staff capacity for on-the-ground conservation results.
Government Relations - We draw together diverse agencies and stakeholders to bridge divides and launch innovative collaborative projects through facilitated dialogue, strategizing, and planning.
Portfolio
The Zoo-Park Partnerships for America’s Keystone Wildlife Project
Eco Mare Terra founded and runs this project partnering 15 National Parks, Wildlife Refuges and Marine Sanctuaries with AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums to recover at-risk park species using in situ and ex situ methods supported by formal long-term agreements.
To see the related publication on AZA.org: click here.
The Zoo-Park Partnership between Glacier National Park and the Oakland Zoo focuses on grizzly bear security in the park and aims to support the Blackfeet Nation’s wildlife mission.
The Dallas Zoo ZPP with Aransas National Wildlife Refuge connects the Zoo’s whooping Crane Center of Texas through collaborative field efforts to improve wintering habitat along the Gulf Coast.
Releasing a chytrid-resistant California red-legged frog near Half Dome that was raised by San Francisco Zoo in partnership with Yosemite National Park.
North American Committee on Cooperation for Wilderness and Protected Areas Conservation
A Project for The WILD Foundation
Eco Mare Terra’s principal Julie Anton Randall served leaders of the Mexican National Commission on Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), Parks Canada, and the U.S. National Park Service, Forest Service, Fish & Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management by facilitating the NAWPA Committee for 6 years. Culminated in a cross-jurisdictional assessment of North American ecosystem resilience and habitat representation in the face of climate change and a last meeting hosted by CONANP in Baja California (2015).
World Wilderness Congress Intergovernmental Forum
A Project for The WILD Foundation
Facilitation of three World Wilderness Congress Intergovernmental Forums and a Global Forum required close work with natural resource agency leadership in the United States, Canada, Mexico and Spain.
In this photo: Receiving the U.S. Forest Service’s Bob Marshall Award in Washington, D.C. on behalf of The WILD Foundation (Washington, D.C. 2013).