Geographical Location: Mexico

February 8, 2021

JWM: Endangered beach mice need feline-free darkness

Endangered beach mice on the Gulf Coast do best in dark nights, with no cats in sight. “[The mice] had a higher probability of being present in areas where there...

February 2, 2021

New whale species ID’d in Gulf of Mexico

A small group of whales in the Gulf of Mexico was already the focus of conservation efforts, but recent research has confirmed the group of about 33 baleen whales make...

February 1, 2021

Mexico receives wolves for reintroduction program

Mexico is receiving a pack of endangered Mexican wolves to boost the country’s efforts to conserve the species. The ABQ BioPark in Albuquerque loaded a pair of Mexican gray wolves...

December 14, 2020

TWS2020: Mexican farm trends affect jaguar land use

Jaguars don’t always need pristine, untouched wild areas to get by in parts of central Mexico, but they do need a decent level of vegetation cover. Ongoing surveys in Mexico’s...

November 20, 2020

Rehabilitated jaguar released in Yucatan after car strike

A jaguar struck by a car in Mexico was released into a biological reserve after 100 days of rehabilitation. The animal, hit several months ago, was quickly discovered by a...

November 4, 2020

TWS2020: Exploring the historic trails of Mexican elk

Back when much of what’s now the U.S. Southwest still belonged to Mexico, elk used to roam widely across the region. Researchers are now looking at old diaries, books and...

October 30, 2020

Mexican photographer documents wildlife along the border

The barriers along the U.S.-Mexican border affect different wildlife species in different ways. Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto has captured the diverse wildlife here in his Border Wall project, which has...

May 14, 2020

Could poaching in Mexico spark another pandemic?

Will Mexico be the site of the next zoonotic pandemic? In a column first published on Mexico Today, Brookings Institution senior fellow Vanda Felbab-Brown warned that the country is vulnerable...

March 17, 2020

Mexico’s wintering monarchs drop by half

Monarch butterfly populations wintering in Mexico have declined 53% since last season, according to recent surveys. Biologists use the acreage of forest they occupy to estimate population changes. The latest...

February 10, 2020

JWM: Museums hold secrets of California’s vanished pronghorn

One hundred years ago, pronghorn roamed the Sonoran Desert in what is now the borderlands between Southern California and northern Baja California in Mexico. Today, they are gone from the...