Join Kim Crumbo, Western Conservation Director, at Amazing Earthfest, Southern Utah’s premiere festival of experiential learning, discovery, arts and adventure. Kim will give a presentation on Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument’s crucial role as a wildlife corridor. Photo: Bob Wick, BLM
On Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Zipps rejected provisions in a 2015 federal management rule that unlawfully imposed roadblocks to the recovery of the endangered Mexican wolf. While the judge’s ruling is a win for the Mexican wolf, there is still work to be done in the ongoing fight to restore Mexican wolves. Photo: Juan Carlos Bravo
High Country News covered last month’s Border BioBlitz, organized by our own Myles Traphagen and Next Generation of Sonoran Desert Researchers. The BioBlitz identified over 800 species along the U.S.-Mexico border and highlighted the region’s spectacular biodiversity. Photo: Myles Traphagen
With so much negativity surrounding the borderlands region of the U.S. and Mexico, the inaugural Border BioBlitz sought to shine a positive light on this dynamic and diverse place that so many people and wildlife call home. Photo: Myles Traphagen
The Monitor, a newspaper in McAllen, Texas, interviewed Borderlands Coordinator Myles Traphagen about the Border BioBlitz, a citizen-science effort to document the stunning biodiversity along the borderlands, which would be devastated by a border wall. Photo: Myles Traphagen
El congresista mexicano Germán Ralis presentó un proyecto de ley para enmendar las leyes mexicanas de carreteras, puentes y autotransporte federal, de modo que los cruces de vida silvestre se vuelvan obligatorios para las nuevas carreteras. Si se aprueba, 2019 podría ser un año brillante para la conectividad de vida silvestre en México. Foto: Wildlands Network
Mexican Congressman Germán Ralis has introduced a bill to amend Mexico’s Roads, Bridges and Federal Auto-transport Law so that wildlife crossings become mandatory for new roads. If it passes, 2019 might be a bright year for wildlife connectivity in Mexico. Photo: Wildlands Network
While our lawsuit against the USFWS for their flawed Mexican wolf recovery plan works its way through the courts, there is plenty of work to do on the ground. Wildlands Network hopes to play a key role in these ongoing efforts by working with the Forest Service to design management strategies for public lands that will give Mexican wolves a better shot at recovery. Photo: Jim Clark, USFWS
Join us, Next Generation Sonoran Desert Researchers and other collaborating organizations to document the stunning biological diversity of the borderlands at several key sites. All citizen scientists are encouraged to participate! Photo: Juan Carlos Bravo
On Saturday March 3rd, teams of professional and citizen scientists in the U.S. and Mexico will work together to focus their observational abilities on a swath of land at the center of international attention: The U.S.-Mexico border. Photo: Brian Powell
Western Program Director Katie Davis wrote this response to Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke’s recent Secretarial Order, which calls for improving habitat protection for big-game species and their migration corridors in the West. Photo: William C. Gladish
Borderlands Coordinator Myles Traphagen visited the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge last month as local activists held a rally to protest the proposed border wall that would slice the refuge in half and devastate the area’s native wildlife. Photo: Myles Traphagen
In this article for Mongabay, a non-profit provider of conservation and environmental science news, Juan Carlos Bravo discusses the catastrophic effects that fencing the entire U.S.-Mexico border will have on wildlife and wild places. Photo: Brian Powell
Secretary Zinke’s new Secretarial Order, issued today, is the Trump Administration’s first major step to address the need for more comprehensive wildlife corridor protection at the landscape level. Photo: William Gladish
Wildlands Network’s Maggie Ernest wrote this inspiring piece for Inside Ecology, detailing Wildlands Network’s history, visionary mission, and practical strategies to achieve continental-scale conservation. Photo: William C. Gladish