Wildlife Corridors, LLC, seeks to facilitate novel public-private partnerships to protect open land, improve habitat and facilitate wildlife movement.

What is a Wildlife Corridor ?

Biologists have long recognized the importance of connections between the biological diversity of the Sky Islands of Arizona and that of the Sierra Madre Occidental of Mexico. Many separate scientific analyses of the region have come to the same conclusion: the biological diversity of the individual mountain ranges is in peril if the migratory linkages among them are jeopardized. A wildlife corridor acts in two ways to benefit wildlife: as habitat, and also as passage between areas of developed land.
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The Story of the Sonoita Creek Wildlife Corridor

In 2004, Arizona Game and Fish Department funded a team of conservation biologists from Northern Arizona University to identify critical linkages important for wildlife migration. The Sonoita Creek Wildlife Corridor was ranked as an important linkage for black bear and mountain lion, and was the most highly ranked linkage for jaguar moving between Mexico and the Huachuca and Santa Rita Mountain ranges outside Patagonia, Arizona.

In early 2015, the founder and director of Borderlands Restoration was presented with a unique opportunity. Over 1,000 acres of nearly pristine grassland, oak woodland, and remnant cienega were placed up for sale by the bank after they had foreclosed on a developer with plans to construct 170 houses on the land. The skeleton of the planned development, Three Canyons, was already in place as a system of roads on the lower third of the property that led to several houses on purchased lots, as well as a water system that would provide plumbing for the proposed lots. While the properties boasted space set aside for conservation, the former conservation easement provides no corridor for animal movement amidst a  landscape dotted with houses.

Thanks to generous supporters this land has been purchased, development rights retired, and today is known as the Borderlands Wildlife Preserve. The land has forever been protected as a safe haven for wildlife, a hub of ecological restoration activity, and a place for humans to respectfully hike, and plants and animals to flourish. 

Read more about the Borderlands Wildlife Preserve.