Ay Mariposa Screening Saturday, October 26
October 24, 2019This weekend in Tucson, come experience the moving story of butterflies and people affected by the US-Mexico border at the screening of Ay Mariposa at the Loft Cinema. Co-presented this…
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Wildlife at the Wall
September 19, 2019The US-Mexico border runs through the heart of the Sky Island Region—a unique continental crossroads between temperate and neotropical worlds—rich with both human and animal life. For millennia, wildlife freely…
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Too much at stake—no border wall in our Sky Islands!
March 6, 2018The Sky Islands are a Continental Crossroads, a place where cultures from two countries and multiple Native Nations mix and mingle, where black bear, coati, and jaguar meet. It is…
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Up Against the Wall
September 28, 2017On a quiet, late-spring morning in northern Sonora, Mexico, a beaver putters across a pond the size of a football field. A sinuous dam, 5 feet high, forms the pond’s…
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Endangered species, and the wall that could silence them
Under the starry skies over the jagged Sierra Madre foothills, Randy Young listens. He slings his hammock between two mesquites, deep in the 55,000 acres he manages for the Tucson-based…
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How Trump’s Border Wall Could Block the Most Exciting Wildlife Comeback in North America
Jaguars are reappearing in the Southwest. A border wall would put an end to that.