Research in the news

  • National Geographic: Can this tiny owl survive in one of America’s fastest-growing states? Shaena Montanari, June 2020.

  • Arizona Illustrated: (Episode 632). Tumamoc Biodiversity, Tony Paniagua, 2020.

  • Wall Street Journal: The Environmental battle over the Mexican border wall. Tim Puko, Feb. 2020.

  • New York Times: Why a border wall could mean trouble for wildlife. John Schwartz, January, 2019.

  • Audubon Magazine: Why the border wall is a problem for birds, despite their wings. Amelia Urry, April 2019.

  • Owling: Enter the world of the mysterious birds of the night. Mark Wilson 2019 (featured in children's book).

  • Washington Post: Thousands of scientists object to Trump's border wall. Kate Furby, July, 2018.

  • Newsweek: Mexico border wall: Thousands of scientists warn of threat to wildlife. Abbey Interrante, July 2018.

  • Fox News: US-Mexico border wall will damage wildlife, scientists warn. James Rogers, July 2018

  • Scientific American: Border wall could disrupt hundreds of species. Christopher Intagliata, July 2018.

  • The Hill: Thousands of scientists endorse study on border wall's threat to wildlife. J. Thomsen, July 2018

  • High Country News: The desert divided. Maya Kapoor, March, 2018.

  • BioScience: Border walls and biodiversity. Lesley Evans Ogden 2017 (Vol 67:498)

  • KNAU: Scientists struggle to study border wall’s effects on wildlife. Melissa Sevigny, 2017

  • Scientific American: Trump’s wall may threaten thousands of species. Cally Carswell, 2017

  • Popular Science: A border wall of solar panels is not good for the environment. Kendra Pierre-Louis, 2017

  • Texas Tribune: Scientists say Trump’s border wall will stop animals but not people. Kiah Collier 2017

  • Agence France-Presse: Trump wall threatens animals without borders. Yemeli Ortega, 2017

  • Seeker: Trump's wall with block animals more than people. Jen Viegas, 2017

  • Nature. Trump’s border-wall pledge threatens delicate desert ecosystems. Brian Owens, 2016

  • Slate Magazine. Trump’s Wall? Also terrible for conservation and scientific collaboration, M. Soniak, 2016

  • Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. Contributed to program about border wall and wildlife, 2016

  • Arizona Illustrated (Episode 119). US-Mexico border development and wildlife, Tony Paniagua, 2015

  • Churea. In search of the Pygmy-Owl, Carlos Gonzalez. July-August 2014.

  • Vermilion Flycatcher. Ferruginous pygmy-owl & climate adaptation, Matt Clark and Chris McVie. 59(4), 2014

  • The All-Bird Bulletin. Aros/Yaqui Habitat Conservation, Megan Southern. Spring 2014.

  • Sonorensis Magazine. Into the Mexican Sky Islands, Sky Jacobs. Winter 2013.

  • Terra Magazine. Rivers in rough country, Sky Jacobs. 2012.

  • UA News. Border fence blocks wildlife movement, Alan Fischer. June 2010.

  • American Scientist. Science observer - don't fence me out, Anna Lena Phillips. November-December 2009.

  • The Wildlife Professional. Science in short – border fence impacts, The Wildlife Society. Fall 2009.

  • Birding Magazine. News and notes - birds of northern Sonora, Paul Hess. July 2009.

  • Discovery News. U.S.-Mexico border fence may snag wildlife, Jessica Marshall. July 2009.

  • Los Angeles Times. U.S.-Mexico border fence isolates wildlife, Amy Littlefield. July 2009.

  • Science Daily. U.S.-Mexico border wall could threaten wildlife species. July 2009.

  • Audubon Magazine. The borderlands - border jumpers. Judy Leibach September - October 2007.

  • Associated Press. Pygmy-owl declining in Mexico, Arthur Rotstein. February 2007.