Consciousness Shift

The mission of the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance is to protect and restore biological diversity, habitat for wildlife and fish, rare plants, and roadless lands in Wyoming and surrounding states. We started doing conservation work in 1988 to preserve the natural character of the Medicine Bow National Forest in southeastern Wyoming. Although we continue to fill this niche today, by the early 1990`s our work had expanded far beyond the `Bow, with increasing attention to wildlife issues. In 1994 we legally incorporated as Biodiversity Associates, but we have recently changed our name to Biodiversity Conservation Alliance to better reflect our strong advocacy work and the growing nature of our organization. We are a lean, efficient non-profit organization with a current full time staff of five.



We use outreach and education to foster public support for biodiversity and wild areas. And we use science and the law to hold public managers and decision-makers accountable for protecting the nation`s natural heritage and upholding the public trust. Our three primary strategies to gain increased protection for wild species and their habitats are:



[1] educating the public and decision makers [like the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management] about the importance of conserving biological diversity and wild lands,

[2] advocating directly through citizen alerts, written comments, meetings, technical analyses, etc., for the conservation of wildlife and sensitive habitats, and concurrently advocating for less damaging alternatives to ill-conceived development proposals, and

[3] opposing by lawsuit and administrative protest developments that threaten rare species or sensitive ecosystems.