THE RETURN OF THE PRONGHORN
The Pronghorn Antilope, Antilocapra americana is one of natures most success stories in North America. Millions of these ungulates used to roam, in the prairies of Canada, the United States and Mexico. The arrival of white men pushed them almost to the extinction. It toked good management to accomplish this spectacular recovery, but not so in Mexico, where the three subspecies are still in danger.
One of the first actions that Unidos para la Conservation carried out was the negotiation with the New Mexico Department of Game and Fish, so that they would support us with a herd of the corresponding subspecies of these antelope, to bring them to the prairies of northern Mexico.
This video shows, Don Guillermo Brittingham telling the story of how he saw pronghorns on his ranch long before they became extinct in the region. You will also be able to see, the first release of pronghorns in Valle Colombia, Coahuila Mexico, of the two that occurred years later.
THE RETURN OF THE DESERT BIG HORN SHEEP TO COAHUILA
In Saltillo, capital of the State of Coahuila, in northern Mexico, in one of the exhibition rooms of the Desert Museum, a phrase was printed in one of its walls, The dream of seeing pronghorns and desert bighorn sheep again. the return of this emblematic species in northern Mexico is a long story, United for Conservation and Sierra Madre accomplish that dream of the Coahuila people, this was around 1998, when a group of sheep were release at the Cemex confinement facility, in El Carmen, for a subsequent release into the wild. Here you can see a video of these animals in their new home, the mountains of the great desert of Coahuila and Chihuahua.
EL JAGUAR SEÑOR DE LAS SELVAS MAYAS
JAGUAR LORD OF THE MAYAN JUNGELS
This documentary presents the field scientific research of one of the most secretive species on the planet, the Jaguar. For decades the Unidos para la Conservación organization, which worked in rainforest of the southern Yucatan Peninsula, were a team of researchers that capture 25 wild jaguar and collared them with telemetry devices to track their movements, to define and protect the jaguar corridors between National Protected Areas. Patricio´s job was to seek financial support for the program, he photographed the story and produce this award-wining film.
