Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative

The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative or Y2Y is a joint Canada–United States charitable organization that connects and protects habitat along the mountain ecosystem from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon. Y2Y works collaboratively with multiple partners - including scientists, conservation groups, landowners, businesses, government agencies and Aboriginal communities - to encourage conservation throughout the region, and to highlight and support local initiatives that support its large-scale objectives.

Y2Y takes a scientific approach to conservation and has been named by the IUCN-World Conservation Union as one of the planet's leading mountain conservation initiatives.

Connecting and protecting habitat from Yellowstone to Yukon so people and nature can thrive.

Y2Y connects and supports a network of organizations, agencies, and individuals doing on-the-ground conservation work in the region. Y2Y facilitates collaboration among those groups to advance an integrated conservation agenda for the entire region.

In 2015, Y2Y provided 15 partner grants totaling $50,000 to organizations in support of their conservation efforts within the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

In 1993, Harvey Locke, a lawyer and environmentalist, had an idea for a vast wildlife corridor encompassing the mountain ranges from Yellowstone National Park to the Yukon. Locke, along with other concerned individuals, wanted to link protected wildlife areas to each other so that wildlife species – especially wide ranging mammals like grizzly bears – could move safely between them.

Y2Y was officially established in 1997 by conservationists and scientists.

To achieve the Yellowstone to Yukon vision, Y2Y protects core habitats, keeps these habitats connected, and inspires others to engage in similar work. Y2Y highlights and focuses on local issues that have implications for the region as a whole, and works with key people to stitch together this landscape.

Stretching 2,000 miles (3,200 kilometres) along the Rocky Mountains of North America, this vast, trans-boundary landscape demands a multi-pronged approach. As a result, Y2Y undertakes a variety of projects within the following eight themes:

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