Since 1991, Round River has partnered with native peoples, conservation organizations and government agencies. We have gathered ecological information and engaged in conservation planning in the Blue Range of Arizona, the Great Bear and Muskwa-Kechika of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, the tropical forests of Belize, and the Yaak Valley of Montana.

Today our conservation efforts in North America are focused in northwestern British Columbia, in the canyons and forests of Utah, the Payette National Forest of Idaho and in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming.  In Africa, our longstanding work in the deserts of Namibia continues as we begin another exciting opportunity in the grasslands of Botswana.  In South America, while our successful efforts in Ecuador are concluding we are looking south to a new project in the Patagonia Mountains of Chile.

For each of these project areas we employ the principles of conservation biology to formulate strategies to give our partners a well-founded scientific basis for their long-term conservation planning efforts. Our project areas are chosen because:

• they contain relatively large areas of intact wild lands with unique compositions of species, including many endemics;

• they are threatened by resource extraction and unsustainable development; and finally,

• favorable conditions still exist to improve conservation education, and strengthen long-term conservation plans and sustainable resource use through local community involvement.