Causes: Children and Youth, Education, Environment
Conservation is losing ground in communities disconnected from nature. The Chihuahuan Desert — one of the most biodiverse yet fragile ecosystems in North America — is facing growing threats from habitat loss, pollution, and climate change. At the same time, many children in El Paso and surrounding areas lack access to meaningful outdoor education or opportunities to engage with animals and wild places. Without early, joyful experiences in nature, it’s easy to grow up unaware — or indifferent — to what’s at stake.
We’ve built an entire model around one simple truth: You protect what you are connected to.
Our Conservation Community Initiative creates opportunities for people of all ages to reconnect with the natural world — not through lectures, but through experience, empathy, and joy.
Disconnection from the natural world isn’t just a crisis of education — it’s a crisis of care.
By giving people the chance to touch, explore, and wonder, we awaken the kind of emotional investment that leads to real conservation action.
We’re not just teaching facts. We’re creating lifelong environmental stewards — one child, one family, one experience at a time.*
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