From the WNY Land Conservancy's webpage: 

 

The Western New York Land Conservancy serves the 8-county area defined as Western New York (Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming). In 2020 we launched the WNY Wildway. The WNY Wildway will be an extensive series of protected lands that connect the vast forests of northern Pennsylvania to the Great Lakes. It will link up with the Eastern Wildway (see map below).

 

Due to threats from climate change and biodiversity loss, bold landscape-scale conservation is necessary. The WNY Wildway will protect biodiversity across our region, ensuring there are opportunities for all species to thrive, including native plants, insects, amphibians, birds, and mammals.