Creating Passage for Wildlife Across the U.S.-Mexico Border
December 9, 2024In this guest blog for the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, SIA Program Director Emily Burns shares details on our newly published analysis of animal crossing rates through different types of border…
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Sky Island FotoFauna Class in Green Valley
December 5, 2024This Jan. 7 and Jan. 21, we’re hosting a two-part class in Green Valley for folks interested in joining Sky Island FotoFauna and learning how to set up a wildlife camera in their backyard as part of our community science project. Registration for Green Valley Recreation members opens Dec. 9, and for the rest of the public, it opens Dec. 24.
New Project Launched to Restore Sonoran Grasslands for Neotropical Birds
November 26, 2024Fall has fully arrived in the high desert grasslands of the Sky Island region, and we’re excited to announce the launch of a new project to benefit neotropical migratory birds,…
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Border Wildlife Study Talk at Phoenix Zoo
October 25, 2024Since 2020, Sky Island Alliance has used wildlife cameras to investigate the impacts of border walls on wildlife movement. For this talk, SIA Wildlife Program Manager Eamon Harrity and Program…
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Coffee Break: Updates From Our Border Wildlife Study
October 24, 2024Through our Border Wildlife Study, Sky Island Alliance has monitored wildlife along nearly 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border for 4.5 years, and we are excited to share some of…
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Need a Halloween Costume? Try Our Javelina Mask!
October 21, 2024Are you still looking for a Halloween costume, or are you just a crafty, javelina fan? You can make this fun javelina mask to wear and/or hang on your wall….
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An Offering for Día de los Muertos
October 15, 2024We at Sky Island Alliance recently had the opportunity to honor wildlife killed at the U.S.-Mexico border wall by creating a Día de los Muertos ofrenda, or altar, on display…
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Coffee Break: Updates From Our Border Wildlife Study
October 1, 2024Through our Border Wildlife Study, we have monitored wildlife along nearly 100 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border for 4.5 years, and we are excited to share some of the insights…
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Flying Connections: The Story of Lesser Long-Nosed Bats and Agaves in the Sky Islands
September 24, 2024Guest blog by Axhel Muñoz Great charismatic mammals like the jaguar and ocelot grace the Sky Island mountains of Sonora and Arizona, but there are other endearing creatures that inhabit…
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Road Rewilding in the Huachucas
September 18, 2024Join SIA as we physically decommission closed roads in the southern foothills of the Huachuca Mountains. We’ll be camouflaging roads with rocks and woody debris, reseeding native plants, building erosion-control…
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