Mexican Natural Protected Area: APFF Bavispe
December 11, 2019Área de Protección de Flora y Fauna (APFF) Bavispe is a 200,900 ha Natural Protected Area in Sonora, Mexico that is scattered across 3 sky islands – Sierra Los Ajos,…
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Mexico’s Protected Lands 101
December 4, 2019Did you know that Mexico has a system of natural protected areas? However, the Mexican land system looks and acts very different than the American public lands system. In…
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¿Quiénes son los Protectores de la Sierra?
November 27, 2019Después de completar el programa de pasantías con nosotros, Inés Griego Montaño y Miguel Enriquez Galaz, tomaron la iniciativa y el liderazgo de formar su propio grupo estudiantil en Unisierra…
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Who are the Protectors of the Sky Islands?
After completing the internship program with us, Inés Griego Montaño and Miguel Enriquez Galaz took the initiative and leadership of forming their own student club at Unisierra called Protectores de…
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Abriendo nuevos senderos en las Islas Serranas
November 20, 2019Este verano tuvimos la suerte de trabajar con dos estudiantes de UNISIERRA – Inés Montaño Griego y Miguel Francisco Enríquez Galaz – y una recién graduada de la Universidad de…
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Blazing new trails in the Sky Islands!
This summer we were lucky enough to be working with two students from UNISIERRA – Inés Montaño Griego and Miguel Francisco Enriquez Galaz – and a recent graduate from Universidad…
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Construyendo puentes, no muros
November 16, 2019En el verano de 2019, Sky Island Alliance ratificó una asociación formal con la Universidad de la Sierra (UNISIERRA) en Moctezuma, Sonora, al actualizar el acuerdo existente en el que…
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Building bridges not walls
In summer 2019, Sky Island Alliance ratified a formal partnership with Universidad de la Sierra (UNISIERRA) in Moctezuma, Sonora by updating the existing Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) in which we…
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The Mexican Origin of Pumpkins
October 28, 2019Did you know that the pumpkins we decorate to celebrate Halloween trace their early origins to pre-Hispanic Mexico? A crop that dates back more than 7,500 years, the earliest pumpkins…
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Big Win for Wildlife in Northern Mexico
October 25, 2019In early October, legislation to make wildlife crossings mandatory for roads in Sonora, MX was unanimously passed into state law by Sonoran Congress. This is the first state law of…
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