Northern Great Plains

Partnerships

Lasting conservation is achieved by collaborating with a range of extraordinary partners, from governments to local communities and from businesses to generous individual supporters. By leveraging the strengths of our collaborations, we are able to accomplish our greatest successes.

In the Northern Great Plains, partnerships are crucial to WWF’s work restoring habitats and species, improving land and wildlife management, and engaging landowners and communities in conservation efforts—all of which are necessary for us to achieve our vision. Our partners include local, state, federal and tribal land and wildlife managers in the United States and Canada, rural development agencies, other nongovernmental organizations such as the American Prairie Foundation, and private landowners and Native American communities across the region.

We have achieved notable partnerships including the Northern Sage Steppe partnership among state, provincial, federal and non-governmental organizations in Alberta, Montana, and Saskatchewan that culminated most recently in a large scale and long term pronghorn conservation and research collaboration.

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Video

Watch black-footed ferrets and prairie dogs at home in South Dakota's Conata Basin. This clip features special "burrow-cam" footage, with close-up underground shots of a young ferret.

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Video by: Steve Hargreaves

WWF Experts

Martha Kaufman

Managing Director, Northern Great Plains

"The American Prairie’s native sod is like an old-growth forest. Once plowed, it can’t be replaced. Right now, less than 2% is protected."

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