Arizona’s San Pedro River Ecosystem featured in “Last Great Places” Conservation Initiative
The Arizona National Conservancy
May 14, 1991
Arizona’s San Pedro River basin is one of twelve sites selected by the Nature Conservancy from throughout the Western Hemisphere for representation in its vanguard conservation initiative to protect entire functional ecosystems; LAST GREAT PLACES: AN ALLIANCE FOR PEOPLE AND THE ENVIRONMENT. The Arizona Nature Conservancy has designed the “San Pedro River Ecosystem Protection Project” to safeguard the animals, plants, and natural communities within the San Pedro River basin that are threatened with extinction throughout their global range.