Tucson, here’s a rad & free event you need to know about. The dude cuddling this javelina is one of the greats of modern biology and wildlife conservation. He‘ll be telling wild stories at Reid Park Zoo May 2nd. All you have to do is RSVP👉🏼 reidparkzoo.org/event/conserva…

Moon and me just trying to get our feet wet in desert water…

Just a mama coati & her six coati kittens crossing a stream in Arizona's #borderlands .

With headquarters near the border in Arizona, we've worked to preserve and protect the rich biodiversity of our borderlands for decades. Info➡️ biodiv.us/3Wbu7YW

📹 by Russ McSpadden

Healthy puma in the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona.

We don’t deserve cacti…

Healthy puma in the Chiricahua Mountains of southern Arizona.

The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to let a mining company destroy this for a kitty litter mine. Not joking. Kitty litter.

Drunk in the Old Pueblo

Research suggests a distinct 3-million-year-old lineage of the Yarrow's spiny lizard has gone extinct near Bisbee, AZ due to climate change. The species’ local rates of extinction in SE AZ are among the fastest ever recorded.

Read more👇
cbsnews.com/news/lizard-po…

pomes, peso each

Wiley Caryote

Found this chair in the trash and now the cacti like to sit on it…

I wrote about two most excellent (and quite terrifying) books about heat and fire:

John Vaillant's Fire Weather
Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First

in the new issue of The New York Review of Books
nybooks.com/articles/2024/…

Took my best friend out for a run in the beautiful borderlands, listening to the radio, high on open space.

NEW: Massive mining companies are stealing a community's land to build the largest copper mine in the U.S.

They want to win people over with gift cards.

But the mine would wreck a sacred Apache site, produce 1.5 billion tons of toxic waste, and drain the local water supply.

🔴 the Mexican state of Sonora protects only 10.68% of its territory under any legal conservation scheme. This % falls short of the international commitments of the 30x30 goal: 30% should be protected by 2030.
New report #Sonora30x30 🧐 wildlandsnetwork.org/resources/sono…

🔴 Sonora protege tan solo 10.68% de su territorio bajo algún esquema legal de conservación.
Este % se queda corto frente a los compromisos internacionales de la meta 30x30: el 30% debería estar protegido para 2030.
Nuestro nuevo informe #Sonora30x30 🧐
wildlandsnetwork.org/resources/sono…

Arizona's Supreme Court upheld a 160 year old abortion ban today. 🤬 The ban was established before Arizona was a state, as the federal government waged war against Geronimo’s band of Apaches & drove thousands of Navajo from their homeland to imprisonment where hundreds died.

Don't miss this upcoming photography exhibit on borderlands surveillance in Tucson.

Dave Maass 🔦 @maassive.bsky.social of EFF in convo with Todd Miller

IT'S HAPPENING