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Room to roam: Biologists and communities create corridors for jaguars in Mexico

Marlén Castro, Thelma Gómez Durán 29 Jun 2022
A dead vaquita floats in the ocean. Image by Robbie Newby for Sea Shepherd.

Experts fear end of vaquitas after green light for export of captive-bred totoaba fish

Michelle Carrere 28 Jun 2022

How marine conservation benefits from combining Indigenous knowledge and Western science

Mike Gaworecki 28 Jun 2022
Members of Las Chelemeras consult with Keila Vazquez (in hat) before continuing their work.

Dig, dump, repeat, then watch the forest grow: Q&A with mangrove restorer Keila Vazquez

Caitlin Cooper 23 Jun 2022
Arabica coffee growing under a shade of trees. Image courtesy of Noel Rojo.

Farmers in Mexico fight coffee disease with resistant varieties and agroforestry

Magdaléna Rojo 15 Jun 2022
“Naná" Gracia is an Indigenous P'urhépecha midwife, seen here in her ekuarho with granddaughter Alma in Angahuan, Michoachán, Mexico. Image by Monica Pelliccia for Mongabay.

Indigenous agroforestry dying of thirst amid a sea of avocados in Mexico

Monica Pelliccia 8 Jun 2022
Portrait of Sarayaku Warmikuna, member of Mujeres Amazónicas (Amazonian Women). The women of the community were the first to be part of the collective known as Amazonian Women. Image courtesy of Esteffany Bravo.

A look at violence and conflict over Indigenous lands in nine Latin American countries

Astrid Arellano, Yvette Sierra Praeli 31 May 2022
Pedro Uc is a poet, campesino and defender of his territory. Photo taken from his Facebook page.

‘What’s lacking is respect for Mayan culture’: Q&A with Pedro Uc Be on Mexico’s Tren Maya

Thelma Gómez Durán 30 May 2022

Tale of two pandemics as mining thrived while communities faced restrictions

Sandra Cuffe 24 May 2022

In Mexico, a divine bird inspires a community’s sustainable forestry efforts

Juan Mayorga 2 May 2022

Why are Florida manatees showing up in Cuba and Mexico?

Maxwell Radwin 29 Apr 2022

In Mexico, a race to save the last wetlands of San Cristóbal de las Casas

Thelma Gómez Durán 26 Apr 2022

Just outside Mexico City, community-run forests provide eco services, livelihoods

Andrea Vega 22 Apr 2022
Rice planting. Image via MASIPAG.

From traditional practice to top climate solution, agroecology gets growing attention

Anna Lappé 13 Apr 2022
Men from the San Francisco communal land make use of a tree that fell during the rainy season. Photo by Marlén Castro.

Protecting water by conserving forests puts communities in Mexico to the test

Marlén Castro 5 Apr 2022
A group of community workers from the Ejido Santa Ana rest after a day working in the forest. Image courtesy of UCDFI Topia, S.C.

Opium production down as communities in Mexico’s Golden Triangle turn to forestry

Rodrigo Soberanes 29 Mar 2022

Chinese investment in Latin America plagues people and nature: Report

Maxwell Radwin 24 Mar 2022

Indigenous communities transform a Mexican desert landscape into forest

Juan Mayorga 23 Mar 2022

Forest enterprise in Mexico attempts to present opportunities for Indigenous communities

Agustín del Castillo 3 Mar 2022

A community in Mexico reforests its land against the advance of illegal logging

Flavia Morales 2 Mar 2022

Mexico’s top court cancels mining concessions near Indigenous communities

Maxwell Radwin 18 Feb 2022

Indigenous Comcáac turtle group saves sea turtles in Mexico’s Gulf of California

Astrid Arellano 17 Feb 2022

Full steam ahead for Tren Maya project as lawsuits hit judicial hurdles

Maxwell Radwin 28 Jan 2022

Here’s how science is trying to conserve the monarch butterfly’s forests

Thelma Gómez Durán 17 Jan 2022

A jaguar refuge in Mexico is an ecological island in the midst of threats

Agustín del Castillo 14 Jan 2022

Mexican firm profits from reforestation, empowers Indigenous people

Maxwell Radwin 21 Dec 2021

In Latin America, the law is ‘a tool to silence’ environmental defenders

Michelle Carrere, Vanessa Romo 14 Dec 2021
Jaguar in a river in Mexico. Photo credit: Gerardo Ceballos

Jaguars in Mexico are growing in number, a promising sign that national conservation strategies are working

Guananí Gómez-Van Cortright 22 Nov 2021

In Mexico City’s urban sprawl, an unexpected illegal logging network thrives

Maxwell Radwin 5 Nov 2021
Beach at Cabo Pulmo National Marine Park

Local communities saved Cabo Pulmo with a national park. Then came the tourists.

Maxwell Radwin 30 Oct 2021

Cooking with the sun: Entrepreneurs help launch Mexico’s solar revolution

Sandra Weiss 27 Oct 2021

Guatemala tightens cattle ranching rules, but can they stop deforestation?

Maxwell Radwin 15 Oct 2021

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