Media Contact
Rick Mick
Communications Coordinator
[email protected]
(520) 624-7080 ext. 83
Press Releases
- New Study Finds That U.S.-Mexico Border Wall Impedes Wildlife Movement — Nov. 21, 2024
- Jaguar Confirmed in Arizona’s Whetstones — Feb. 6, 2024
- Groups Launch Remote Camera Study in San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge — Sept. 19, 2022
- New Documentary “American Scar” Reveals Border Wall Destruction — May 3, 2022
- Border Wall Construction Destroys Critical Wildlife Habitat in Patagonia Mountains — Jan. 19, 2021
- Border Wildlife Study Detects Over 100 Species in U.S.–Mexico Borderlands — Dec. 10, 2020
- Border Wildlife Study Documents Animal Species In Threatened Region — July 23, 2020
- Trump’s Border Wall Would End Jaguar Recovery — May 14 2020
- Border Wildlife Study Press Release — April 2, 2020
Press Coverage
- The Guardian: ‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office (January 2025)
- Mongabay: Fauna silvestre atrapada por el muro fronterizo entre Estados Unidos y México (January 2025)
- Arizona Daily Star: Researchers use trail cameras to record wildlife walled off by border barriers (December 2024)
- Arizona Public Media: Study shows border wall cuts wildlife crossings by 86% (November 2024)
- Rewilding Earth Podcast: Conservation Challenges and Successes Amidst Increased Border Militarization in the Sky Islands (August 2024)
- Arizona Daily Star: Sonora ranchers: Mine’s ‘unethical’ water pumping leaving them dry (August 2024)
- Herald/Review: Tribes, environmentalists decry addition of road vehicles in the Chiricahuas (June 2024)
- Arizona Republic: Arizona’s Sky Islands: A ‘treasure’ that threats could bury (May 2024)
- KJZZ’s Fronteras: Old photo of bear on Arizona border wall is recirculating. Experts say wildlife issue is worse today (March 2024)
- Knowable Magazine: Hunting sky islands for genetic clues to climate resilience (March 2024)
- The Guardian: ‘We are the guinea pigs’: Arizona mining project sparks concerns for air and water (March 2024)
- Patagonia Regional Times: Sky Island ‘FotaFauna’ January Highlights (February 2024)
- KOLD Tucson: Border wall may pose serious threat to Sonoran wildlife (February 2024)
- Patagonia Regional Times: Volunteers Work to Rewild Old Roads in Coronado National Forest (February 2024)
- KVOA Tucson: Jaguar spotted in southern Arizona mountains (February 2024)
- Arizona Daily Star: Arizona’s newest jaguar can be hard to spot, except on camera (February 2024)
- KJZZ’s Fronteras: Conservation group confirms 2 jaguar sightings in southern Arizona mountains (February 2024)
- The Guardian: ‘I was thrilled and shocked’: images raise hopes of return of wild jaguars to the U.S. (February 2024)
- ABC7 California: Evidence by research group shows US-Mexico border wall has impacts on wildlife (January 2024)
- Outdoors: Organization Captures Thousands of Photos of Wildlife Living Along the U.S. and Mexico Border (January 2024)
- Arizona Daily Star: Black bear at U.S.-Mexico border (January 2024)
- Loret en Latinus: El tren fantasma que se construye en Sonora (December 2023)
- ABC15 Arizona: Changes in migration patterns of large animals along Arizona’s southern border (December 2023)
- KJZZ: Nonprofit’s cameras reveal how the border wall in Arizona affects wildlife migration (December 2023)
- Arizona Daily Star: Secretive plans for Sonora train outrage conservationists, residents (November 2023)
- Arizona Public Media: Reviving Montezuma Pass: Sky Island Alliance’s bold initiative to rewild decommissioned roads (November 2023)
- KJZZ: Sky Island Alliance seeks volunteers to help with Forest Service road project (October 2023)
- Tucson Audubon: Sky Island Splendor: A Guide to 14 Sky Islands in Arizona, Sonora (pg. 6-9) (October 2023)
- KJZZ: On the border, stadium lighting could threaten night skies of conservation lands (October 2023)
- Tucson Sentinel: Volunteers spring to survey water in Patagonia Mountains before mine begins pumping (September 2023)
- Borderlore: Game camera hobbyists and conservationists reveal the hidden lives of animals in Southern Arizona (August 2023)
- Voice of America: Foro: La salud, el precio que pagan los latinos por el sueño de vivienda en EEUU (July 2023)
- Arizona Public Media: Court settlement includes meaningful border wall changes for wildlife (July 2023)
- KJZZ’s “The Show”: Saguaro Land: A look at the vastly shifting landscape of the Sky Islands (April 2023)
- PBS’ “La Frontera With Pati Jinich”: Foraged Foods in the Sky Islands (April 2023)
- Arizona Public Media: BioBlitz aims to clean up the border but also opens eyes (April 2023)
- The Border Chronicle: Ducey’s Debacle: The Wall of Shipping Containers Is Gone, but Questions Remain (April 2023)
- AZ Luminaria: How Southern Arizona environmentalists and advocates blocked a border wall of shipping containers (February 2023)
- Fronteras: As Ducey’s shipping container wall comes down, wildlife concerns and lawsuits are left behind (February 2023)
- Arizona Daily Star: Border barrier cost $48M per mile (January 2023)
- Scripps News: Containers Used as a Border Wall Are Being Removed, But at What Cost? (January 2023)
- KGUN: Gov. Ducey agrees to remove shipping containers along U.S.-Mexico border (December 2022)
- Fronteras: Southern Arizona volunteers document springs in sky island country (December 2022)
- Sierra Vista Herald: Activists stall construction of shipping container wall at border (December 2022)
- Reuters: Border barrier of shipping containers snakes across Arizona wilderness (December 2022)
- Proyecto Puente: Gobernador de Arizona “blinda” con cientos de contenedores frontera con México (December 2022)
- AZ Luminaria: A treasure hunt for wild springs in Arizona’s desert (December 2022)
- National Geographic: A rogue barrier threatens wildlife on Arizona border (December 2022)
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