The Chihuahuan Desert Preserve Association (CDPA) is a 501(c)3
charitable association whose mission is to develop, establish, monitor, and maintain adequate and active procedures and programs that lead to the conservation of threatened, at risk, recently delisted, and/or endangered habitats and species of plants and animals through ongoing education, research, restoration/extension of habitat, and the development of outreach activities. This would include, but not be limited to: environmental studies, educational (e.g., STEM) programs held at the Blake Williams Biological Research Station on the Preserve, and CDPA scholarships for research opportunities, enhancement and/or restoration of habitats, surveys and inventories of species within habitats, propagation and genetic research, and the development and implementation of long-term programs that will be used to preserve a given species and educate the public on the need for its conservation — all of which may go a long way toward eventually removing some of these species from the endangered list.