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welcome to the collaborative for right relationsWe catalyze enduring collaborative action for thriving lands, waters, and communities.
A thriving future for ALL requires collaborations centered on relationships: Relationships with the lands and waters that support us, and Relationships across diverse leaders and environmental stewards.
Grounded in distinct traditions of earth careThe Collaborative for Right Relations works with people, organizations, and networks to shift the systems that shape how we care for land and waters.
We support our community of partners to build the relationships, readiness, and shared responsibility needed to:
Honor distinct knowledge systems
Reshape power flows
Take bold, collaborative action grounded in interconnectedness and intergenerational responsibility.
Establish new norms
Learn more about who we are and what we do
The Impact is RealSince 2023, partners have advanced 29 collaborative projects across conservation and Indigenous groups.
Including 16 ancestral land return partnerships
Representing over 25,000 acres
Alongside structural and policy shifts supporting Tribal engagement
“I came away with a stronger sense of personal responsibility to approach my work through a lens of humility, listening, and long-term relationship-building rather than transactional conservation outcomes.”
Conservation Practitioner
See the impact through recent projects and partnerships
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Ferrini + Marks Landscape
In 2024, Big Sur Land Trust (BSLT), in partnership with Trust for Public Land (TPL), secured Ferrini Ranch to prevent its development into a luxury residential subdivision through bridge financing.
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Walking the Path of Right Relations: Creating a Climate Resilient Monterey Bay
Walking the Path of Right Relations supports non-Indigenous organizations working to create a Climate Resilient Monterey Bay.
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Walk Together in Right Relations: Teachers Workshop
This 2-day cohort learning experience will weave together Indigenous and Western teaching styles
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California Council of Land Trusts Speaker Series
This Speaker Series for California land trusts explores land protection in partnership with Indigenous Peoples and addresses the opportunities and challenges these efforts encounter.
“In other spaces, I sense people are trying to fix us or change us. I don’t sense this with this group…It doesn’t come from the brain, it comes from a connection with sacred values.”
-Indigenous Leader
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