By Hollie Colahan, Executive Director of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Norberto J. (Bert) Castro, President and CEO of the Arizona Center for Nature Conservation/ Phoenix Zoo. Header Image by Taylor Sparks, Mammalogy Keeper For six decades, visitors to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Phoenix Zoo have been inspired by encounters with the Mexican grey wolf, by locking eyes (even for a moment), by hearing them howl, and…
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Border Wall Expansion Endangers Species
By Debra Colodner PhD, Director of Conservation Education and Science at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and Ruth Allard, Senior Vice President of Conservation and Education at the Phoenix Zoo Plans for additional primary and secondary border wall and related construction are accelerating rapidly in southern Arizona. While we appreciate the need for border security, wildlife…
Desert Museum Science: Knowledge from Nature for People
A Day in the Life of Desert Museum Science Buzz Hoffman, a retired entomologist and founding member of the Museum’s Bee Team volunteers, spends several hours each week staring down a microscope, looking at minute details of native bees to sort them by genus. Isabella, a senior at Sunnyside High School, picks up where Buzz…