Tijuana Estuary
The Tijuana Estuary is the largest intact coastal wetland remaining in the region. It is a place where the United States, Mexico, and the indigenous Kumeyaay Nation come together along an international border. The estuary is in the U.S. portion of the Tijuana River Watershed, which includes Border Field State Park and the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve. Climate impacts are experienced disproportionately by marginalized communities on both sides of the border, and these occur in the face of stressors such as sedimentation, flooding, marine debris, and degraded water quality. These threaten natural and cultural resources, and also compromise recreational, aesthetic, and sense-of-place ecosystem services. The Tijuana Estuary represents a space for developing solutions to these challenges - solutions that involve community collaboration and the human dimension of conservation and restoration, enabling conditions for climate resilience in social-ecological systems.
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