How Nature Supports Southern Arizona’s Economy
June 12, 2025People from all over the world come to southern Arizona to experience the great outdoors, recreate, and just be among the area’s scenic landscapes and wildlife. But how much is…
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Coffee Break: Improving Borderlands Wildlife Corridors
May 8, 2025Only a few sections of the U.S.-Mexico border within the Path of the Jaguar are still passable to most wildlife. One of these sections is the San Rafael Valley between…
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Update on Our Migratory Bird Monitoring in Sonora
April 1, 2025In this virtual Coffee Break, SIA Wildlife Program Manager Eamon Harrity and Mexico Program Manager Zach Palma share latest news with our new project bridging grassland bird conservation and regenerative…
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Saving Our Saguaros: Managing Grassification of the Sonoran Desert
March 3, 2025Learn more about a pressing issue in our region and what we can do to help in this virtual Coffee Break with guest speaker Kim Franklin, associate director of conservation…
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Tracking Urban Emissions Through Plant Radiocarbon and Traffic Modeling
February 12, 2025We’re back this spring with another community science project that builds on last year’s efforts and brings two volunteer opportunities to the Tucson area. In this virtual talk, we share…
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Coffee Break: Updates From Our Border Wildlife Study
October 24, 2024Through our Border Wildlife Study, Sky Island Alliance has monitored wildlife along nearly 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border for 4.5 years, and we are excited to share some of…
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The Arizona We Want: The Decade Ahead
September 12, 2024In this virtual Coffee Break, we’re joined by Dr. Sybil Francis and Ian Dowdy from Center for the Future of Arizona. Our guest speakers review the results of their groundbreaking…
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The Sonoran Desert: A Bee Diversity Hotspot
August 22, 2024Did you know that the Sonoran Desert is a hotspot of bee diversity, home to more than 1,000 species!? How many of these can you name? In this virtual Coffee…
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Coffee Break: Searching for the Southwest Spring Firefly
July 11, 2024In this virtual Coffee Break, our featured topic is the Southwest spring firefly (Bicellonycha wickershamorum), a nocturnal species associated with permanent streams and marshy areas in the Sky Islands and…
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Coffee Break: Porcupines in the Sky Island Borderlands
June 20, 2024In this virtual Coffee Break, SIA Wildlife Specialist Meagan Bethel presents on an often overlooked species in the Sky Islands: porcupines. North American porcupines are found across Arizona, but little…
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