May 7, 2025
2025 Accelerator will advance conservation solutions in the North Atlantic
The North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape—home to over 30 million people in the U.S. and Canada and spanning seven states and four provinces—is characterized by rich biological and cultural diversity, with major watersheds like the St. Lawrence, Connecticut, Hudson, and Penobscot Rivers; renowned natural features such as the Northern Appalachian, Adirondack, Green, and White Mountains; and more than 50 sovereign Tribal and First Nations whose traditional territories cross these lands and waters. And, despite being a highly fragmented region, both in terms of ecosystems and jurisdiction, it presents significant potential to increase landscape connectivity, reverse biodiversity loss, and achieve targets like 30×30 in the region. More »
May 7, 2025
Peregrine Accelerator will return to US-Mexico borderlands
Launched by the Salazar Center in 2022, the Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact champions and invests in ideas that contribute to national and global targets for biodiversity and climate, advance community wellbeing, and address environmental inequities and injustice. The program focuses on distinct target transboundary landscapes across North America—aka “nests”—on an annual basis. More »
January 13, 2025
Salazar Center accepting applications for 2025 Peregrine Accelerator in the North Atlantic
In 2022, the Salazar Center for North American Conservation launched the Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact, a program that champions and invests in conservation solutions that contribute to national and global targets for biodiversity and climate, advance community wellbeing, and address environmental inequities and injustice. More »
September 13, 2023
Salazar Center awards $150,000 in implementation funding for Accelerator participants in New Mexico, Texas
The Salazar Center’s inaugural Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact program culminated last week in a presentation event, during which nine project teams from across the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo river basin had the opportunity to share their final proposals with the Center and a panel of experts. More »
September 6-7, 2023
2023 Final Presentations held September 2023
April 20, 2023
The whole is greater than the sum of the parts: Hopes for the first Peregrine cohort
The Salazar Center recently announced the inaugural cohort of project teams accepted into our Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact. Each of these groups is working to realize innovative conservation solutions in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo River basin—which spans our southern border, across Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas in the US, and into Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon, Tamaulipas, and Durango in Mexico. More »
March 20, 2023
Salazar Center advances innovative conservation efforts in threatened Rio Grande River basin
The Rio Grande River basin, known as the Rio Bravo in Mexico, supplies drinking water to more than 6 million people in the U.S. and Mexico, irrigates millions of acres of crops and contains some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in North America. More »
October 6, 2022
Center announces the Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact
Yesterday at the fourth annual International Symposium on Conservation Impact, the Salazar Center for North American Conservation announced the launch of its Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact, a new program designed to spur innovative solutions for ecological and human health in the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo River basin. More »