Earlier this month, in Santa Ana Pueblo, New Mexico, TWP hosted the third annual Stewards of the Southwest Summit.
Although this event is only in its third year, we’re amazed to see the relationships that have already grown. Attendees are returning to see familiar faces and continue where conversations left off, year after year.
Fencing isn’t often the first thing to come to mind when we think about conservation.
But working from the local level continues to teach us that different places need different things. Some may need connectivity, some may need protection.
At TWP, we’ve always believed local leaders are the best equipped to address their communities’ challenges. But in many of the regions we work, women experience those challenges in distinct ways and continue to face barriers to leading their solutions.
Twenty-eight years ago, our organization started with a focus on planting trees.
But since our founding, we’ve seen the need to attend to a whole context – forests aren’t sustained without people, and people aren’t sustained without opportunities for work, a connection to their culture, and a voice in the decisions that affect them.