Get to Know Our Fall 2020 Interns: Miguel Francisco Enriquez Galaz
December 8, 2020We launched our first binational internship program at Sky Island Alliance this year! Despite the many challenges we’ve faced during a global pandemic, the internship program has been an incredible…
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Get to Know Our Fall 2020 Interns: Elizabeth Solis Pereida
December 3, 2020We launched our first binational internship program at Sky Island Alliance this year! Despite the many challenges we’ve faced during a global pandemic, the internship program has been an incredible…
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Seven Reasons Why We’re Thankful for Our Incredible Volunteers
December 1, 2020Never underestimate the power we have when we come together to serve the Sky Islands—to monitor water, eradicate invasive species, and restore the health of all flora, fauna, and people….
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Get to Know Our Fall 2020 Interns: Ángel Octavio Garcia Godinez
November 25, 2020We launched our first binational internship program at Sky Island Alliance this year! Despite the many challenges we’ve faced during a global pandemic, the internship program has been an incredible…
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Celebrating LGBTQ Environmentalists for LGBTQ STEM Day
November 18, 2020As a queer science writer working in environmental science and conservation, I both recognize and resonate with the profound ideas and inner strength the LGBTQ+ community brings to Science, Technology, Engineering,…
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Meet Profauna: An Organization Turning the Tables in Favor of Conservation in Northern Mexico
November 11, 2020Northern Mexico has had a tragic history of iconic wildlife extinctions due to hunting and persecution by government agencies and landowners. The Mexican Grizzly Bear or Mexican Silvery Bear (Ursus arctos nelson), for example, was a subspecies of…
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Sky Islands Spotlight: Rodolfo Dirzo
October 13, 2020This month, Sky Island Alliance is celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month. National Hispanic Heritage Month has been observed in the United States since 1968. From September 15 to October 15…
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Arizona’s First Indigenous Peoples’ Day
October 9, 2020What does it mean to decolonize conservation? Why does mainstream environmentalism still recognize the 1960s as the “birth of the environmental movement” when communities all around the world have protected Earth’s ecosystem for centuries? How do we as…
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Volunteer Spotlight: Brit Rosso
August 24, 2020Volunteers make Sky Island Alliance work possible—from restoration projects to spring surveys to wildlife tracking, we couldn’t do it without them! Today we’d like to introduce one of our newer volunteers who has…
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One decade as a Latinx environmentalist
July 21, 2020I started my career in conservation in 2010, when I was hired as a Biologist Technician in the Youth Intern Program (YIPs) crew by Saguaro National Park’s Biologist Don Swann….
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