Scientific knowledge is essential for promoting informed, sound, and effective decision-making on nature conservation.

We work in collaboration with national, provincial, and local government agencies, civil society organizations, the private sector, and local communities to contribute to strategic environmental planning, gathering and providing valuable scientific information to support it.

We seek to ensure Argentina's wildlife thrives in diversity and health, and that the landscapes where it lives retain their ecological integrity. Most wildlife species spend at least part of their lives outside protected areas and move over large spatial scales, both in terrestrial and marine environments. Through scientific methods and the incorporation of local knowledge, we work to understand the current and potential threats facing species and develop participatory and lasting solutions to address them.

How do we work?

• We contribute to the development of Argentina's National Biodiversity Strategy and work within its framework to ensure the survival of species, such as southern right whales, penguins, guanacos, Patagonian steppe carnivores, condors, and flamingos, among others.
• We support Argentine researchers in developing their projects in the country and enter into agreements with government research institutes, such as CONICET.
• We accompany large-scale, sustained studies to assess the conservation status of species and habitats.
• We monitor species, their offspring, and environments to detect changes in populations and interpret the factors that cause them, such as climate change and the impact of human activities.
• We design science-based adaptive management strategies to improve knowledge about protected species and optimize conservation practices by incorporating climate change mitigation and adaptation actions.
• We conduct scientific studies that are published in leading scientific journals in Argentina and around the world.
• We promote participatory processes and the development of citizen science to learn from local communities about their knowledge, practices, and customs, which we then incorporate into species planning and conservation processes.