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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Prairie Chicken Why environmental groups have been slow to fight the border wall	Glenn Hurowitz	16 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
The border fence under construction in Arizona. Photo: Defenders of Wildlife The bobcat turned, looked at me, and jumped into the mesquite brush. It was the first day of a three-day visit to South Texas, and I was exploring the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge along the Rio Grande River. Seeing the bobcat was a treat for me -- but the kind of treat that could become increasingly rare ...
Topics: environmental movement, Mexico, politics, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

A Bouquet of Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers readers' questions		28 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés, WWF Mexico Program. What do you feel are some of the key elements that individuals and organizations must consider when developing strategies that will both preserve and protect the monarch butterfly, the forests and benefit the landowners and citizens of Mexico? -- Don Davis, Toronto, Ontario, Canada This is a very good question that gets at the heart of the challenge face ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Days of Wine and Honey-Rosés Butterfly protector Jordi Honey-Rosés answers Grist's questions		24 Jan 2005	InterActivist
Jordi Honey-Rosés. With what environmental organization are you affiliated? Currently I serve as program officer in the Mexican Forest Program for World Wildlife Fund, working to protect the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico. The pine and fir forest region where I work is the winter habitat for the migratory North American monarch butterfly. These butterflies travel all th ...
Topics: InterActivist, interview, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		10 Feb 2004	Daily Grist
Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Zap Dingbats?		17 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Zap Dingbats? The Montes Azules jungle in Mexico, near the Guatemala border, is one of the largest remaining pockets of tropical rainforest in North America -- and the battle to save it has created unusual political bedfellows, to say the least. The Lacandon people, who have lived in Montes Azules for centuries and legally own much of the reserve, have squared off against other indigenous people from the nearby highlands, who ...
Topics: Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Bread and Butterfly		09 Jul 2002	Daily Grist
Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Mr. Green Beans He's all abuzz about socially responsible coffee	Lisa Jones	11 Aug 2000	Main Dish
I am in the local coffee shop in Paonia, Colo., drinking a cup of joe and pleasantly anticipating its effects on my brain. My companion, Eli Wolcott, isn't drinking a drop. He doesn't ask what coffee can do for him; he asks what he can do for coffee. Eli Wolcott (the mug's just a prop). Photo: Lisa Jones. Specifically, Eli wonders whether he can help coffee workers in the remote hills of southern Mexico im ...
Topics: food and agriculture, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Stories About: Mexico AND wilderness AND wildlife