Help Survey Springs in Sierra Los Ajos
May 16, 2025We’re looking for two to three volunteers for a trip to APFF Bavispe near Cananea to help survey springs with Mexico’s park staff and university students. The trip will include two nights of camping, remote locations, hot temps, and full Spanish immersion, plus firefly surveying in the evenings if we’re lucky. If interested, email SIA’s Mexico Program Manager Zach Palma at [email protected].
Coffee Break on Borderlands Wildlife Corridors
April 17, 2025Only a few sections of the border within the Path of the Jaguar are still passable to most wildlife. One of these sections is the San Rafael Valley between the Patagonia and Huachuca mountains. However, once wildlife traverse the border, there are still a multitude of threats they must face including dangerous roads, lack of water, fences, mining, and development. Join us for our next virtual Coffee Break to hear from Aaron Mrotek, the manager of The Nature Conservancy’s Patagonia-Sonoita Creek Preserve, and SIA’s Stewardship Manager Bryon Lichtenhan. They’ll discuss what our organizations are doing to improve the conditions for wildlife throughout this important landscape in partnership with other NGOs, state, and federal agencies. You’ll also learn how to get involved with various projects.
Wildlife Photos Exhibit in Agua Prieta
April 8, 2025SIA highlight photos and videos of wildlife, including ones from our FotoFauna and Border Wildlife Study cameras, as well as moments captured out in the field, will be on display in Agua Prieta, Sonora. So if you’re in the area, join us! Entrance is free, and the exhibit will be showing in the museum until June. But if you come this first night at 5 p.m., you can hear SIA Wildlife Specialist Miguel Enríquez share some stories about the photos, many of which he took. Folks from Cuenca Los Ojos, our collaborators in this exhibit, will also be there to speak and share highlight photos and videos.
Border BioBlitz in Sonora
April 2, 2025Calling birders, botanists, bug lovers, trackers, herpers, fungi folk, and naturalists of all sorts! Join us this May 24-25 at Cuenca Los Ojos ranch near Agua Prieta, Sonora, for a weekend of camping and surveying as part of this year’s annual border bioblitz. Using the iNaturalist app, our goal will be to identify as many species as possible to document the amazing diversity of life in our borderlands. Campers are welcome to arrive at Cuenca Los Ojos ranch on Friday, May 23. Then on Saturday we’ll be surveying in the Animas Valley within the ranch. And on Sunday we’ll head to another part of the ranch in the San Bernardino Valley.
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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Coffee Break: Update on Our Migratory Bird Monitoring in Sonora
March 19, 2025Join us April 1 at 9:30 a.m. for our next virtual Coffee Break to learn more about our exciting new project bridging grassland bird conservation and regenerative ranching in Sonora. Our speakers will be SIA’s very own Wildlife Program Manager Eamon Harrity and Mexico Program Manager Zach Palma.
Nuevo proyecto lanzado para restaurar pastizales de Sonora para aves neotropicales
November 26, 2024El otoño ya ha llegado por completo a las praderas del alto desierto de la región de las Islas del Cielo, y estamos emocionados de anunciar el lanzamiento de un…
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Volunteer Outing at Rancho El Sahuaro
November 6, 2024Join us for a volunteer camping weekend at the picturesque Rancho El Sahuaro, just 15 minutes south of the U.S.-Mexico border town of Naco, Sonora. As part of our larger Ranchos Regenerativos program, which aims to integrate traditional ranching practices with land stewardship, we will be working with the landowners on restoration activities at this mixed grassland ranch.
Photo Contest: 2024 Festival of the Sky Islands
October 31, 2024As part of the 3rd Annual Festival of the Sky Islands, recently held in Moctezuma, Sonora, we held our first photography contest. Participation was divided into categories for amateurs (phone…
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Drawing Contest: Reptiles of the Sky Islands
October 24, 2024As part of the 3rd Annual Festival of the Sky Islands, recently held in Moctezuma, Sonora, we once again held a drawing contest. This year’s prompt: reptiles. This contest seeks…
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