The Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) held its first ever international meeting in Mexico, July 8-10, 2014. The Desert LCC is an international partnership that brings together managers, stakeholders, communities and others to collectively address landscape conservation in the major desert and mountain regions of the Southwestern United States and Northern Mexico. Seventy-nine people from the U.S. and Mexico met at the Universidad Autónoma de Aguascalientes to strengthen the international foundation for the partnership and to further engage the Mexican conservation community in advancing cooperative conservation across the region.
The Desert Landscape Conservation Cooperative (LCC) held its first ever International partnership
meeting in Mexico, July 8-10, 2014 for the first time. The Desert LCC is an international partnership that
brings together managers, stakeholders, communities and others to collectively address landscape
conservation in the major desert and mountain regions of the Southwestern United States and Northern
Mexico. Seventy-nine people from the U.S. and Mexico met at the Universidad Autónoma de
Aguascalientes to build an international foundation for the Desert LCC partnership by engaging
representatives from existing and potential partners within the Desert LCC geography in Mexico.
We discussed the science, data sharing, and communication needs of Mexican and U.S. partners as they
relate to addressing climate change climate change
Climate change includes both global warming driven by human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and the resulting large-scale shifts in weather patterns. Though there have been previous periods of climatic change, since the mid-20th century humans have had an unprecedented impact on Earth's climate system and caused change on a global scale.
Learn more about climate change and other large scale ecosystem threats, climate-smart landscape
conservation design, developing international pilot projects for conserving aquatic, riparian riparian
Definition of riparian habitat or riparian areas.
Learn more about riparian , and
grassland ecosystems, and solutions to the challenges of conducting collaborative, trans-boundary
conservation. Outcomes of the meeting include bi-national project ideas and specific action items, such
as recruiting critical partners from Mexico, overcoming language and communication barriers, and
developing consistent monitoring and data sharing methodologies amongst our bi-national partners. At
this meeting, the Desert LCC took a big step forward in developing an international partnership that
allows us to inform and coordinate conservation efforts for priority ecosystems in the U.S. and Mexico,
allowing us to make a greater collective impact than any one organization could make alone. Meeting
participants from Mexico and the U.S. have already begun acting on the outcomes of the meeting and
will be advancing them further at the Desert LCC’s annual planning meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico,
August 26 – 29, 2014.
Learn more about the Desert LCC on our website (http://www.usbr.gov/dlcc/) or Facebook Page
(https://www.facebook.com/desertlcc).
