Trump’s Wall: Bad Idea for Border Ecosystems?
The Sierra Club thinks Donald Trump’s wall would be a terrible idea for the already compromised ecosystems around the U.S.-Mexico border.
The Sierra Club thinks Donald Trump’s wall would be a terrible idea for the already compromised ecosystems around the U.S.-Mexico border.
A conservation project in Mexico City is trying to transform an odd-looking salamander into a "spokes-animal" for a threatened habitat. The axolotl is in danger of extinction in its native environment, but an effort to revive a green space in the city may help to improve its prospects.
In El Portugues, a small fishing camp in Mexico’s Baja California Sur, moustachioed fishermen with tobacco-colored skin glide to shore in 21-foot panga boats and unload their modest catch of small sharks and devil rays. It seems innocuous enough, given that most of the sharks, skates and rays (a class known as elasmobranches) are being harvested via small-scale, non-industrialized methods. But according to a two-year survey led by Robert Hueter, director of the Center for Shark Research in Sarasota, Florida, there are 147 fishing camps along the Gulf of California supporting 4,000 to 5,500 active pangas targeting elasmobranches.