What We Do

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Trash and Sediment Source Control

In September of 2012 the Alter Terra Team successfully completed a three year conservation program focused on reducing...
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Binational Efforts

Alter Terra has been actively and successfully developing partnerships with relevant agencies that regulate enforce and/or promote...

Wetland Conservation

Temporary Employment Programs train local residents wetland conservation:  For the third consecutive year Alter Terra has successfully solicited PET...
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Centro de Hope Tijuana Community Center

In 2022, Alter Terra's founding director Oscar Romo...
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Cross-Border Trash Tracking

The Los Laureles Canyon sub-basin is part of the Tijuana River Watershed. This watershed is the western-most...
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Waste Tire Revalorization

Tire walls built in Los Laureles Canyon by Alter Terra serve as retaining walls, stadium seating for...
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Training Community Leaders

Funded by the Ford Foundation, Alter Terra, A.C. designed and implemented the “Building Assets through Community Mobilization”...
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Internship Opportunities

Students from around the globe are drawn to Los Laureles Canyon in Tijuana as a living laboratory...
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Blue-Green Infrastructure

Alter Terra has created an exportable model within the North American Region by combining previously tested science-based...
   
 
 

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