Recommendations of the Assessment:
Protect environmental quality and promote sustainable economic development of border communities, including the development of binational ecotourism routes on both sides of the US-Mexico border;
Develop conservation strategies that will preserve an ecosystem that is resilient to climatic changes;
Build capacity within academia, state and federal agencies, as well as within civil society to conduct the recommended inventories, monitoring, and research in each of the 29 priority conservation areas identified;
Create an institutional framework to facilitate binational conservation and restoration projects in the region; and
Support and justify funding at the international, national, and local levels in both Mexico and the United States.