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Dive into the latest conservation news stories focused on the Yellowstone to Yukon region

What if wolves, caribou and other wildlife could roam through protected lands from Yellowstone National Park in the U.S. to Canada's Yukon? A project to create such a massive habitat corridor has beco...

Over 3 million hectares of jaw-dropping natural beauty and grandeur. This is British Columbia’s largest intact wilderness. In this area there are no clear cuts, no power lines—there’s not even a…

BRITISH COLUMBIA, Canada — On a sunny Thursday in May, Kent Kebe had to scrape yet another bighorn sheep carcass off Highway 93/95 running through Radium, British Columbia. The necropsy confirmed what...

We are looking for an experienced and collaborative leader to help guide our multi-year caribou habitat restoration program.

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Support Kaska First Nations in their efforts to protect Dene K'éh Kusān in the northern part of the Yellowstone to Yukon region.

By filling out an online survey together in just a few minutes, we can make a huge difference for one of the biggest, wildest places in BC!

Join Y2Y and Dena Kayeh Institute for a special screening of Dene K’éh Kusān: Always Will Be There in Victoria, B.C., on July 23. As British Columbia weighs permanent protection...

Nearly three years ago, Newscast guest, author and journalist Ben Goldfarb discussed his book Crossings, which is about wildlife crossings and road ecology. Wildlife crossings help reconnect habitats…

Migration increases the survival of ungulates like mule deer and caribou, but changing landscapes are hampering their movements — and their future.

One of the busiest highways in the western U.S. is I-25, a concrete artery that runs north to south across the state of Colorado, funneling roughly 100,000 cars per day through the fast-growing…

In this Frontiers in Science Deep Dive webinar, Dr Harvey Locke, Prof Johan Rockström, Prof Raina Plowright explored why halting and reversing biodiversity loss by 2030 is essential to prevent the…

Dr. Jodi Hilty shares Y2Y's radical yet elegant solution to stop biodiversity loss and address climate change on the TEDx stage at MIT.

Join us in Taber for a day of all things grasslands! Did you know that 2026 is the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists?

Every December, the team at Quest Nature Tours chooses a charity to support with a holiday donation… and last year, Y2Y was selected!

In northern B.C., near the Yukon border, Dene K’éh Kusān is the largest tract of intact, unprotected wilderness in B.C. It’s the beating heart of the Yellowstone to Yukon region, a globally…

We recently partnered with Hipcamp to reach the 700+ hosts who offer camping experiences within the Yellowstone to Yukon region. Our goal is to provide best practices for hosting in wilderness areas,…

If it doesn’t happen, they’re ‘doomed,’ says Okanagan Indian Band Chief Dan Wilson.

The stunning Elk Valley has been home to grizzly bears, bighorn sheep and lynx for centuries. And key parcels of land called the Kootenay Forest Lands project, located within the homelands of the…

Natural ecosystems are powerful climate tools, pulling carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the atmosphere, and locking it away in forests, soils, and peatlands. This reduces the greenhouse effect and keeps…

Today, the gap between grizzly bear populations in the southern Rockies has shrunk to just 72 kilometers (45 miles). This extraordinary recovery is the result of strategic land conservation and…

The biodiversity in the Creston Valley, B.C., is unique and thanks to local conservation efforts, still includes grizzly bears. This has created an opportunity for the community to create solutions…

Y2Y's latest annual impact report shares the impact, progress and stories of our collaborative conservation work from 2024 and beyond.

Y2Y works to advance conservation by partnering with diverse communities to connect and protect this vast, ever-changing mountain region. To guide our conservation efforts, we draw from the best…

Achieving our vision across the Yellowstone to Yukon region — spanning the Yukon in Canada to Wyoming in the U.S. and at least 75 Indigenous territories — requires deep and ongoing collaboration.…

Y2Y's latest annual impact report shares the impact, progress and stories of our collaborative conservation work from 2024 and beyond.

A new study has found that when deforestation and land use change break up key habitats vital to amphibian life cycles, those disconnects can play havoc with the animals’ microbiome, leaving them more...

NASA-funded research is helping turn golden eagle journeys across mountains, grasslands, and borders into data for wildlife managers.

How do animals navigate a changing world? From the hundreds of thousands of caribou migrating across northern Canada to a single grizzly bear attempting to cross a Montana highway 46 times, wildlife…

The Government of Canada's 2026 nature strategy is exactly the kind of bold action needed to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. It also aligns with the work Y2Y donors and partners have supported for...

Bridges of hope over – and under – Canada’s busy highways

Attend a panel event in western Montana April 18 and 19 to learn about, discuss and discover the potential solutions to maintaining landscape connectivity through wildlife crossings.