ARTICLES & OP-EDS

“Last week at the Pueblo of Pojoaque, the American Bison Society Conference & Workshop brought together a diversity of bison experts: tribes, first nations, agencies, scientists, managers, conservationists, producers, youth, storytellers, artists and philanthropists, to share experiences and strategies for advancing bison restoration from Canada to Mexico. … As at no time before, we have the opportunity now to make real a broad strategy for bison recovery across this great continent that braids indigenous science, western conservation, economics, and art and culture into an inspiring vision that connects and unites us from Canada to Mexico.”
— Jospeph M. Talachy, Roger Fragua, and Cristina Mormorunni from “NM helps shape bison conservation” in Albuquerque Journal, November 4, 2019

Following are a select list of articles and op-eds on biodiversity crisis and conservation in the Rio Grande watershed and the U.S.-Mexico borderlands authored or co-authored by the Species in Peril Along the Rio Grande project organizers, speakers and partners between April 2018 and April 2020. We will continue to add more to this list as new articles/op-eds are published.
  • Laura Paskus, “It’s only April and a stretch of the Rio Grande has already dried,” The New Mexico Political Report, April 5, 2018.
                                                                                                                                                 Read the Article/Op-Ed

     

  • Laura Paskus, “A dry Rio Grande in springtime isn’t normal. But it will be,” The New Mexico Political Report, May 7, 2018.
                                                                                                                                                  Read the Article/Op-Ed     

  • Robert Peters et al., “Nature Divided, Scientists United: US–Mexico Border Wall Threatens Biodiversity and Binational Conservation,” BioScience, Volume 68, Issue 10, October 2018.
                                                                                                                                                  Read the Article/Op-Ed

     

  • Subhankar Banerjee, Joseph Cook, and Samuel Truett, “The border wall endangers the future of humanity and nature,” Albuquerque Journal, August 19, 2018.
                                                                                                                                                  Read the Article/Op-Ed     

  • Subhankar Banerjee, “Biological Annihilation: A Planet in Loss Mode,” TomDispatch, December 11, 2018.
                                                                                                                                                  Read the Article/Op-Ed     

  • Jospeph M. Talachy, Roger Fragua, and Cristina Mormorunni, “NM helps shape bison conservation,” Albuquerque Journal, November 4, 2019.
                                                                                                                                                  Read the Article/Op-Ed     

  • Kevin Bixby, “Ongoing border wall construction has risks,” Albuquerque Journal, April 4, 2020.
                                                                                                                                                  Read the Article/Op-Ed 

Banner image: Laura Paskus, from “A dry Rio Grande in springtime isn’t normal. But it will be”, 2018.
Five borderlands conservation hotspots identified by Defenders of Wildlife lie within six important cross-border ecoregions. From “In The Shadow of the Wall: Part – 1 – Borderlands, Wildlife, Habitat and Collaborative Conservation at Risk,” by Robert Peters and Matt Clarke, pg. 3, 2018. Courtesy Defenders of Wildlife.