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By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. Here in El Paso a new group is forming to help come up with a plan to create a binational conservation corridor along the US Mexico border. Ever since the first sections of the border wallContinueContinue reading “Can binational wildlife corridors be created along the border wall?”

By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. As the audience awaits the rising curtain on the big bat flight show, vociferous Cave Swallows fly overhead in search of a final evening meal.  These dive-bombing acrobats must know that they will be forced outContinueContinue reading “Chihuahuan Desert Birds: Cave Swallows”

Burrowing Owl next to a drainage culvert. Owls often displaced by development projects will nest in culverts only to lose their eggs when it rains. Zoo staff came to the rescue and built a artificial burrow that the owls soon moved into. Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to ourContinueContinue reading “Can we learn to share El Paso with burrowing owls?”

Mexican black bear by Rick LoBello Many species of Chihuahuan Desert wildlife will benefit from wilderness protection at Big Bend National Park. KEEP BIG BEND WILD is a coalition of Big Bend National Park supporters who care deeply about securing the future of the wild places we love at Big Bend.  Their goal is toContinueContinue reading “Zoo will host Keep Big Bend Wild public meeting, Nov. 14, 6:30pm”

Ocotillo along the Lost Dog Trail with lechuguilla stalk blooming in the foreground. Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. Ocotillo is a common plant here in the Chihuahuan Desert. This blog post is courtesy of Big Bend National Park. Big Bend is home to many unusual plants.ContinueContinue reading “The ocotillo, easy to see and well adapted to the desert”

By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. In many El Paso neighborhoods people at this time of year are hearing the vocalizations of rock squirrels and mistaking them for birds.  Rock squirrels are fairly common in El Paso and during the first partContinueContinue reading “Don’t be fooled by the whistles of the rock squirrel”

This is a picture of the Fandango Owl, a Great Horned Owl that was rescued near Big Bend National Park many years ago. By Rick LoBello, Board Member Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. The Zoo Education Animal Collection has a Great Horned Owl named Archimedes. Estimated toContinueContinue reading “The Fandango Owl”

By Dr. Kristen Lear, Agave Restoration Program Director at Bat Conservation International October is Bat Appreciation Month, and what better way to celebrate than giving a helping hand (or in this case plant) to one of our endangered native bats! The El Paso Zoo has partnered with Bat Conservation International for the second year ofContinueContinue reading “This Bat Appreciation Month, “Adopt an Agave” to Save a Bat!”

Why should the State of Texas come up with a plan to bring back the wolf to the desert and mountain region of West Texas and the Chihuahuan Desert?What efforts are underway to help convince Texas and the US Fish and Wildlife Service to support a Texas Wolf Recovery Plan?Years ago Yellowstone National Park andContinueContinue reading “The wolf was killed off in Texas by 1970, is there hope for its return? Join a Zoom presentation on November 1”

El Paso Zoo visitors have signed over 20,000 letters to Texas Parks and Wildlife asking the agency to support a plan to restore the wolf to the wilds of Texas. Enjoy reading about our amazing Chihuahuan Desert. Sign up for a free subscription to our blog. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced that it willContinueContinue reading “Mexican wolf rule eliminates cap on population, restricts killing”