Jaguars - Conservation

through Collaboration

Join the Trust's upcoming Virtual Happy Hour and meet Randy Young Villegas, Founder and Executive Director of La Tierra del Jaguar!

Friday, August 25 at 4pm

La Tierra del Jaguar is a bi-national nonprofit that teaches regenerative skills and empowers people to partner with nature in places inhabited by jaguars.

(right) Jaguar. Photo by Prashant Saini, 2019

Jaguars do not use maps. They do not know where the boundary for a protected area ends and a rancher's land begins. With 80 percent of the land being held by private ranches in Sonora, changing communities' opinions about this iconic feline is key to its protection and success in the northern range.

Randy will talk about the best way to affect positive change in these rural ranching communities - by increasing communities' financial stability, restoring overgrazed land, and creating an appreciation for nature with mesquite and agave agroforestry. The result allows protection of this endangered species and the creation of abundance for humans and nature.

To attend this informative presentation registration is required by this link -

La Tierra del Jaguar

(left) Randy and Cholo. Photo by La Tierra del Jaguar

(above) Orme Ranch in Central Arizona, Yavapai County.

Historic Orme Ranch Permanently Protected Along Ash Creek in

Yavapai County

Central Arizona Land Trust and Arizona Land and Water Trust joined forces to help the Orme Family establish a permanent conservation easement on their family ranch. This effort prevents all development yet retains all rights to agricultural uses. The conserved property, at 907 acres, covers most of the private land that makes up this historic ranch that has been in operation since 1929. 

The conservation easement will ensure the permanent protection of water and land resources including healthy, native grasslands and the lush riparian areas along Ash Creek in Arizona’s central highlands. 

For more information read the press release here.

Arizona Land and Water Trust has Moved!!

As of August 1st we have moved to the Community Foundation for Southern Arizona campus.

5049 E. Broadway Blvd,

Suite 117

Tucson, Arizona 85711

Stop by and see our brand new space!