What is cooperative conservation? It is, in simplest terms, a participatory conservation movement of people from all walks of life that is rooted in collaborative decision-making and bottom-up action. It can be as straight forward as a rancher working with partners to restore habitat. Or, it can be as complex as a community working with government agencies and conservation groups to create a collaborative framework to attain resource conservation goals. To learn more, go to Cooperative Conservation Story.

What is CooperativeConservationAmerica.org? CCA is a public forum for collecting and sharing the cooperative conservation stories, lessons, models and achievements of all Americans. It provides citizen conservationists from every walk of life an opportunity to contribute to, and learn from, a common pool of conservation knowledge, tools, and practices – a cumulative and evolving database of information that will advance citizen stewardship, foster community-based conservation, encourage and support the vital role of private lands and landowners, and expand and strengthen shared governance in the care and conservation of America’s lands, waters, and wildlife. To learn more, click on Background.

Project listings that were entered on this site as of July 22, 2005, are going to be included as cooperative conservation project listings in Faces and Places of Cooperative Conservation, a publication of the August 29-31, 2005, White House Conference on Cooperative Conservation.

We have received over 800 Project listings. Thank you for sharing your Cooperative Conservation project stories!

Please continue to enter your case studies as the project stories you share provide knowledge, tools, and lessons for others when they visit this website.