Latin America & the Caribbean
From Mexico to Argentina, WCS’s Latin America and Caribbean program uses a landscape-scale approach to conserve the habitats of the region’s penguins, pumas, monkeys, guanacos, and other iconic wildlife. Our conservationists work on the ground to protect Latin America’s most ecologically intact wild places, including the rugged coastlines of the Southern Cone, the rainforests of the Amazon basin, and grasslands of the Andean steppe. Encompassing productive fisheries, biological corridors, migratory flyways, carbon sinks, sustainable development reserves, and more, these landscapes are not only vital to Latin America’s biodiversity but to its people and economies as well.
Featured Landscapes
A gift by Goldman Sachs helped to establish this reserve in Patagonia, a mix of peat bogs, woodlands, and snowy mountains.
One of Earth’s most sparsely populated regions, this land is the last stronghold of the guanaco, a wild relative of the llama.
Magellanic penguins, southern right whales, and elephant seals rely on this wild, remote expanse to feed and breed.
This swath of the Amazon has one of the world’s greatest varieties of trees and a record number of bat, bird, frog, and fish species.