Select an area of the above diagram to learn more about our approach to conservation.
Setting Priorities
Sonoran Desert Ecoregional Plan: Setting Goals
The team established conservation criteria (goals) for the targets to identify a network (portfolio) of landscape-scale conservation areas that, given appropriate management, would help ensure the long-term persistence of most of the ecoregion’s biodiversity. Safeguard enough of its best remaining lands and waters and you conserve the living essence of the desert.
Conservation criteria included maintaining/conserving:
- All viable occurrences of rare, threatened, and endangered species;
- All native fish populations and the stream reaches in which they occur;
- Sufficient representative examples of other species, plant communities, and ecosystems; and
- All known critical ecological features such as significant migratory bird stopover and nesting areas and bat roosts.
Join The Nature Conservancy on