Mirna Manteca, our Northeast Mexico Program Co-Director, grew up in the borderlands of the U.S. and Mexico. She brings a personal perspective to her work, seeing across political borders to a connected bi-national community of people and wildlife.

Amid towns, agriculture, highways, interstates, rail ways, pipelines, and a border wall, the Sky Islands connect a politically divided landscape between Sonora in northern Mexico and southern Arizona in the United States.

Entre ciudades, agricultura, autopistas, carreteras interestatales, vías férreas, oleoductos y un muro fronterizo, las Islas del Cielo conectan un paisaje políticamente dividido entre Sonora, en el norte de México, y el sur de Arizona, en Estados Unidos.

From coordinating a multi-pronged coalition to serving as a subject matter expert in official meetings, Gina Chacon has been instrumental in promoting a bill proposed by the Federal Executive Branch that would ban new mines in Natural Protected Areas.

El proyecto de Presupuesto de Egresos de la Federación para 2023 (PPEF 2023) que el Poder Ejecutivo presentó el pasado 8 de septiembre continúa con una tendencia decreciente para el cuidado y conservación de las áreas naturales protegidas, patrimonio natural de México.

A jaguar who roamed Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains as recently as 2015 was recently spotted again in central Sonora, nearly seven years since he was last recorded.

Earlier this week, the Congress of Sonora unanimously approved a bill to modify environmental and municipal tax laws that will conserve private land across the Mexican state.

After waiting 30 years the community of Pueblo de Álamos may finally be able to conserve the Sierra Huérfana.