Rio Grande Joint Venture

Priority Bird Habitats

CHIHUAHUAN DESERT

Grasslands
Riparian corridors and wetlands

Tamaulipan Brushlands

Grassland dominated habitats
Riparian corridors

Gulf Coast Prairie

Laguna Madre
Riparian corridors
Coastal habitats

RGJV: A Migratory Bird Conservation Partnership

The Rio Grande Joint Venture (RGJV) is a public-private partnership dedicated to conserving birds, their habitats and the ecosystems that support wildlife and people across a large binational region.

The Rio Grande Joint Venture geography (outlined in green) includes Bird Conservation Regions (BCRs) #35 (Chihuahuan Desert), #36 (Tamaulipan Brushlands) and the portion of BCR #37 (Gulf Coastal Prairie) that lies in Mexico.

RGJV vision: The ecosystems across the binational Río Grande Joint Venture landscape support thriving communities of birds, other wildlife, and people into the future.

Latest News

April 11, 2026

Our Latest Newsletter is Available

Our Fall 2025 Newsletter is Now Available Online! Despite not sending out a newsletter since December 2024, RGJV has much
to report. First and foremost, our conservation delivery team in South and West
Texas collectively hit a milestone…

RGJV Monitoring Recap – 2024

The Rio Grande Joint Venture (RGJV) performs monitoring activities on private lands throughout its geography to understand how vegetation and/or bird abundance and diversity are changing in response to management actions designed to enhance and regenerate habitat.

Las Cienegas: Restoring Small Areas with Big Impact

Continuing work on one of the JV’s earliest projects (funded originally by TPWD and NFWF in 2019) Jeff Bennett, Price Rumbelow, the Dixon Water Foundation, and Borderlands Research Institute collaborated in 2024 to restore this important wetland using Pittman-Robertson funding.