Launched by the Salazar Center in 2022, the Peregrine Accelerator for Conservation Impact champions and invests in ideas that contribute to national and global targets for biodiversity and climate, advance community wellbeing, and address environmental inequities and injustice. The program focuses on distinct target transboundary landscapes across North America—aka “nests”—on an annual basis.
Yesterday, at its International Symposium on Symposium Conservation, the Center announced its 2026 Accelerator nest: the Baja-Sonora Transboundary Region, which spans diverse terrestrial, coastal, and marine ecosystems from Baja California to the Sonoran Desert and Sierra Madre forests. Applications for the 2026 program will open in late 2025.
Each nest is defined around shared ecology and a common socio-cultural ground. The boundaries of these landscapes are intentionally drawn to be binational, across a large enough region that can bring together groups from two countries in a context where they might not otherwise interact. In addition, nests must demonstrate a strong track record of—or ample opportunity for—collaboration across borders, and are well positioned to achieve impact as determined by conservation value, lack of attention, and need.
In 2023, the pilot year of the program, the nest was the Rio Grande-Rio Bravo Basin, and in 2025, it is the North Atlantic Transboundary Landscape (learn about our recently announced 2025 cohort). The Accelerator supports diverse and complementary cohorts of promising projects in these landscapes that are led by local rights- and stakeholders, who participate in a tailored, outcomes-oriented program that is responsive to each region’s ecological, cultural, and socioeconomic needs and opportunities.
Learn more at peregrineconservationimpact.org.