An investigation into wildlife trafficking between Mexico and the United States not only put a smuggler behind bars. It also exposed the inner workings of the illegal cross-border wildlife trade. The U.S. Justice Department announced …
In 2014, wildlife managers in Mexico captured a bear in the Sierra Madre Occidental, Mexico’s western mountain range, that didn’t quite seem to belong—it was much darker than the ones usually found there. Black bears …
Current conservation measures for monarch butterflies may be falling short, say researchers who created a model to analyze how the butterflies are faring. Rodrigo Solis-Sosa, a veterinarian and PhD candidate at Simon Fraser University, first …
What brings a million birds that breed in the Arctic to winter on the coast of northwest Mexico? “The truth is, researchers don’t actually know,” writes Julián García Walther, a PhD Student in ornithology at …
Every winter, several hundred thousand redhead ducks descend on the Laguna Madres of southern Texas and northeastern Mexico. Redheads wintering in this area, which represent about 80% of the continental population, have some peculiar habits. …
Although deserts have limited plant diversity, they are hotspots for butterfly biodiversity, suggesting that these dry areas should be a focus for conserving the insects. That was the finding of a team of researchers who …
In 1964, a federal control agent with the U.S. government shot and killed the last known jaguar north of Interstate 10 in Arizona. While some people have spotted the animals south of the highway since …
Large tracts of high-quality habitat for Mexican wolves can be found across northern Mexico and the southwestern U.S., according to cross-border distribution modeling revealing suitable areas for the animals. Mexican wolf (Canis lupus baileyi) habitat …
The number of monarch butterflies landing on their wintering grounds in central Mexico in 2020 has dropped by about 26% from the previous year. Rather than counting individual butterflies, researchers size up the amount of …
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 (Canis lupus baileyii) and their …
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