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On January 22, 2000, in a one-room schoolhouse, operated by a rural land cooperative known as Ejido Cebadillas, a Mexican-Canadian negotiating team representing The Wildlands Project and four Mexican conservation groups signed a land protection agreement. The agreement placed a fifteen-year logging moratorium on 6,000 acres of Ejido-managed old growth pine and fir in the mountains of west-central Chihuahua. This area, which is located about 200 miles south of Lordsburg, New Mexico, contains about half of all the nesting sites of Western Thick-billed Parrots in the world. The Wildlands Project and other groups have developed a Sky Islands Wildlands Network Conservation Plan (see our article) which seeks to establish a system of wildlands and to repopulate the former natural ranges in Arizona and New Mexico with large carnivores and other rare animal and plant species. These 6,000 acres are among Mexico’s last fully functioning wilderness ecosystems. For more information about how you can provide financial assistance, please call The Wildlands Project toll free at (877) 844-0875. Bird questions? Check Birding | General questions? Contact: Tucson Audubon Society | Webmaster: Email This page was updated on 12/28/05 |