Tag: Mexico

Black bear populations in the southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico can be divided into several genetically distinct groups that haven’t mixed much for thousands of years. New research reveals that...

Surveys in Sonora, Mexico have found high mammal diversity along waterways, including some washes that lead toward the border into the United States. Field conservationists with Cuenca Los Ojos, a...

A butterfly nonprofit is paying to ship 12 monarch butterflies from Wisconsin to Texas, where they hope the insects will migrate to Mexico. Friends of Butterfly Gardens Inc. is funding...

For years, corn farmers in Mexico have tried to fight the perceived damage to their corn by leaving out poison for birds and other animals, or by shooting them. Dozens...

A study finds that two groups of scrub jays—one in Mexico and one in Texas—deserve status as independent species. According to the paper, appearing in Systematic Biology, genetic sequencing collected...

Mexico saw 35% more monarch butterflies arrive to its mountain forests last winter than the previous year. Experts say the rise may be due to butterflies adapting to rising temperatures...

Mexico has released two pairs of endangered Mexican wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) into two areas in the state of Chihuahua. The wolf pairs, named “Manada del Arroyo” and “Manada del...

Mexican palm oil plantations in Mexico are associated with a lower diversity of birds migrating south from Canada and the United States for the winter. Birds have been declining for...

Most of the islands in the Gulf of California are uninhabited, but for generations, a fishing family has lived on El Pardito Island in the southwestern end near La Paz....

Luis Zambrano was used to surveying fish species in the Yucatan Peninsula before he got involved with studying axolotls. The axolotl used to range more widely throughout Mexico City than...