Photo Gallery: 2023 Earth Day Border BioBlitz
April 25, 2023This past weekend for Earth Day, Sky Island Alliance joined the 2023 Border BioBlitz, a month-long event held each April that seeks to document the diversity of life in our…
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Animals That Love the Night and Dark Skies
April 19, 2023 Night provides essential habitat for many wildlife species here in the Sky Islands, from bats and owls to rats and ringtails. Over time these species have evolved to see…
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Getting Ready for Rain in Moctezuma, Sonora
April 4, 2023Rainwater harvesting has been practiced for hundreds of years throughout the Sonoran Desert — so it’s nothing new. But in recent times there’s been an exciting resurgence using both old…
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Conservation Projects Underway in Spring 2023
March 31, 2023 We’ve reached an exciting point here at Sky Island Alliance where our projects in southeastern Arizona and northern Sonora are taking new shape and growing, and we wanted to…
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Spring Flowers in the Sky Islands
March 13, 2023 We’ve been enjoying a wet winter in the Sky Islands, and that always gets me excited for spring wildflowers. With the right temperatures and moisture, we can usually expect…
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Border Coalitions for Environmental Justice: Two Cases
March 9, 2023 This is the second in a series of reflections on environmental justice from Mariana Sofia Rodriguez McGoffin, a member of Sky Island Alliance’s board of directors (see Part 1)….
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Gear Drive: Help Support Our Sonora Work
March 8, 2023 This March, Sky Island Alliance is hosting a gear drive to benefit our work in the rural Sky Islands of Sonora, and there are several ways to get involved….
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This April, Join the 2023 Border BioBlitz
March 5, 2023 Since 2018, the Border BioBlitz has been an annual community science effort to record as many species as possible along the U.S.-Mexico border. This year Sky Island Alliance is…
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UN-Funded Conservation Project Takes Off in Sonora
February 22, 2023 In 2022 the United Nations Development Program, Coca-Cola Foundation, and Ayuda en Acción in México launched a call for project proposals to enhance the health of rivers in priority…
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Reflecting on Environmental Justice in the U.S. and Mexico
February 9, 2023 This is the first in a series of reflections on environmental justice from Mariana Sofia Rodriguez McGoffin, a member of Sky Island Alliance’s board of directors. Based in Tucson,…
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