About us
We believe lasting restoration is born when science, local communities, and the memory of this territory walk together. No one cares for what they don’t feel is theirs: we work hand in hand with our allies, collaborators, and the Ndé Nation as biocultural co-author.
We regenerate Cuatro Ciénegas at landscape scale: restoring the ecological, hydrological, and social conditions so this one-of-a-kind ecosystem can recharge its aquifer, recover its wildlife, and create well-being for the people who call it home.
Cuatro Ciénegas alive, forever: where water springs again, wildlife returns to its place, and communities and Indigenous peoples thrive as guardians of an ecosystem found nowhere else on Earth.
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We care for a sacred, one-of-a-kind place with the humility of those who tend something that isn’t theirs to own.
We don’t just stop the harm: we give the land back its power to generate water, life, and well-being — thinking in generations.
Communities and the Ndé Nation aren’t beneficiaries: they are co-authors. No one cares for what they don’t feel is theirs.
We measure with rigor and speak with honesty, always telling what we’ve achieved apart from what we’ve planned.
We take on what seems impossible — always in alliance.
Our values
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.
Fundación Pro Cuatrociénegas is a Mexican nonprofit (asociación civil) founded in 2019 with a clear vision: the territorial regeneration of this one-of-a-kind oasis.
Authorized donee (donataria autorizada) certified by Mexico's tax authority (SAT)