Rio Grande Valley

American Forests: Develop a five-year Integrated Resilience Action Plan for South Texas and Northeastern Tamaulipas to identify integrated biodiversity and community resilience goals.

Mexican long-nosed bat migration corridors in the basin, with a focus on Nuevo León and Coahuila, Mexico

Bat Conservation International: Implement community-based agave restoration, regenerative agriculture, and ranching, and create a network of community green business enterprises to support nectar bat foraging habitat and rural economies.

Southern Colorado and northern New Mexico

Chama Peak Land Alliance (CPLA): Initiate an opportunity for ranchers and farmers to do replicable riparian restoration projects across the Rio Chama Watershed and the broader basin

El Paso County, Texas

City of San Elizario Urban Agriculture Department: Build water banks with local El Paso County residents to harvest and then sell the collected rainwater to local agricultural users at market price, thus mitigating flood impacts while supporting local agriculture and the economy.

Rio Grande Headwaters in Colorado

Colorado Rio Grande Restoration Foundation: Implement comprehensive river access, agricultural infrastructure improvements, and aquatic and riparian habitat restoration as part of a broader, long-term effort to protect and restore streams and rivers in the headwaters of the Rio Grande Basin.

Lower Rio Grande Valley

Hispanic Access Foundation: Establish a wildlife refuge in Southeast Texas between the border wall and the Rio Grande, while advancing Latino grassroots leadership in local conservation efforts and increasing access to recreation opportunities.

Basin-wide

Pronatura Noreste, A.C.: Establish a binational working group with the Río Grande Joint Venture to promote collaboration and governance mechanisms in coordination with the International Boundary and Water Commission (IBWC) and the Comisión Internacional de Límites y Aguas (CILA) in order to improve the predictability and reliability of water deliveries to users in the United States and Mexico.

Monterrey Metropolitan Area, Mexico

Terra Habitus A.C.: Identify and prioritize the recharge areas of the regional aquifer systems in Monterrey, Mexico, to support groundwater use planning and improve its sustainability, as well as design a payment mechanism for water services to generate new financing for the management of sub-basins and priority recharge zones.

Middle Rio Grande in New Mexico

Valencia Soil and Water Conservation District: Partner with wildfire experts, riparian ecologists and scientists, and other water stakeholders in the Middle Rio Grande to reduce wildfire occurrence and severity and to develop post-fire revegetation designs that are climate-adapted and maximize native biodiversity.