Founded in 2000, WiLDCOAST is an international conservation team dedicated to protecting coastal communities, wildlands, and wildlife. Through community outreach, activism and media campaigns, WiLCOAST works to eliminate threats to ecosystems and to develop reserves to permanently protect sensitive areas. Since its inception, WiLDCOAST has successfully protected more than one million acres of coastal wildlands. Staff includes:

• Serge Dedina. Executive Director. Serge received the 2003 Environmentalist of the Year Award. Over the past ten years Serge helped develop the 500,000-acre Loreto Bay National Park and the 24,000-acre Isla Espíritu Santo Refuge. He initiated the campaign to stop the Mitsubishi Corporation from building a salt project in Laguna San Ignacio. He founded The Nature Conservancy’s Baja California and Sea of Cortez Program. The author of Saving the Gray Whale, he received his Ph.D. in Geography from the University of Texas at Austin.
• Saúl Alarcón Farfán. Wildlands Conservation Program Manager. A native of Mexico Saúl received his M.S. in Natural Resource Management and Geographic Information Systems from the University of Michigan and has worked on natural resource issues for the U.S. and Mexican government on both sides of the border. Before working with WiLDCOAST, Saúl worked with Jones & Stokes in San Diego as a biological consultant.
• Fay Crevoshay. Communications Director. Fay is a former National Public Radio and El Financiero reporter. She is considered to be Mexico’s top environmental communications professional. She arranged recent coverage by the San Diego Union-Tribune, Associated Press, USA Today and Christian Science Monitor of the conservation easement deal with Ejido Luis Echeverría. She holds a M.A. in Political Science from the University of Toronto. Fay is a native of Mexico.