About us
Since 2019, we’ve worked to protect and revitalize one of Mexico’s most singular and vulnerable ecosystems: the Cuatro Ciénegas valley. We believe conservation is done with the community — not in spite of it.
Everything starts with the place: its water, its soil, its people, and its history.
Community, science, government, and Indigenous peoples at the same table.
Soil and water works, planned grazing, and species coming home.
The engineer of the landscape: breaking the soil's crust, spreading seeds, opening the way for grass.
Healthy grasslands soak in the rain and recharge the aquifer that feeds the pools.
Where there's soil and water, species come back — and so do opportunities for people.
Every visit, every gift, and every ally turns the wheel again.
Who’s going to bring back the grass? The iyané. — Juan Luis Longoria Granados, Ndé Nation, the foundation’s Director of Culture, in an interview with CNN (translated from Spanish; iyané is the Ndé word for bison)
Director General
Specialist in ecosystem regeneration and regenerative agriculture; the voice behind the bison's return to Mexico.
Short bio and portrait pending
Director of Culture · Ndé Nation
Leads the project's biocultural connection with the region's Indigenous peoples.
Source: CNN — validate title and bio with the team
Rest of the operations team: to be confirmed with the Foundation.
We work with government, science, community, and Indigenous peoples.
* Alliance to be confirmed. List from the strategic plan; each alliance’s current status is confirmed with the team before launch.
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