If Not Us Then Who mentors communities experiencing land dispossession and resource exploitation to use the power of the lens.
Stories by Shannon Collins
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Ancient ballgame links its modern Maya players to a silenced culture
This sport, erased by the conquistadors, is being rediscovered by indigenous communities seeking to connect with their ancestral history.
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‘This Christ is our Christ:’ Campeche’s black Jesus crucifix a beloved icon
Campechanos revere this 450-year-old crucifix with a dark-skinned savior but also embrace it as a symbol of cultural resilience.
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Monthly farm-to-table outdoor event brings Campeche diners to their food
Farm to Table, where avant-garde vegetarian meals are cooked outside before your eyes, uses in-season ingredients grown on-site.
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Real vaquita protection needed now and for Mexico’s next dying species
A recent petition to the USMCA aims to save the porpoise but also set precedent to mitigate future Gulf of California biodiversity loss.
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Vampire bats’ maligned reputation hinders efforts at conservation
Global warming’s effects are disrupting the crucial roles these much-maligned and misunderstood creatures play in ecosystems across Mexico.
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International environmental fest will plant 45,000 mangroves in Mexico
The global Trees & Seas festival is taking place this week in Chile as well as in 30 satellite communities, four of which are in Mexico.
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UNESCO’s call to end US border wall aims to save species from extinction
The Trump administration’s rapid construction of the barrier threatened the habitats of jaguars and other flora and fauna in both countries.
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As LGBTQ+ rights advance in Mexico, cultural attitudes slow to catch up
While Mexico has legalized gay marriage and elected two transgender politicians, it’s also seen 459 murders of LGBTQ+ people in five years.
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The time for Mexico to be talking about earthquakes is now
Until Mexico’s preparedness is truly adequate, the next large quake won’t just take lives, it will thrust more people into severe poverty.
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The mysterious case of an island that ‘vanished’ in the Gulf of Mexico
The apparently missing island, which had been on maps since 1539 but in 2008 suddenly couldn’t be found, possibly cost Mexico millions.
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Three Yucatán organizations named Blue Communities
The NGOs were added to Plastic Oceans International’s network of environmentalist groups seeking to conserve waterways and marine wildlife.
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Natural treasures await when you look past Tabasco’s underdog reputation
It often gets ignored by the rest of Mexico, but Tabasco’s stunning, biologically diverse tropical rainforest is hiding in plain sight.
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Mexico’s southern jungle loses firebrand environmental advocate
The late Sharon Matola lived simply in order to dedicate full attention to advocating for the wildlife of the threatened Mexico-Belize jungle.
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Campeche’s elections could be a bellwether for the nation’s political future
In Campeche, nearly every political candidate’s watchword is ‘change’ this year. What does that indicate about voter sentiment in Mexico?
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Fights over looted artifacts question museums’ role as culture guardians
Repatriating items held for centuries to nations of origin often means confronting the history of how the pieces got there to begin with.
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In the southeast’s ‘water communities,’ families live at a river’s mercy
The lands along the Usumacinta River are home to largely forgotten families who eke out a quiet life cut off from the outside world by water.
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Duo’s images of Mexico’s biodiversity aim to encourage conservation
The goal of Iliana Huerta and Mike Alcalde’s visceral photography of Mexico’s natural world is to inspire their countrymen to save it.
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Healing the US-Mexico border divide calls for ingenuity and some chutzpah
A teeter-totter briefly installed at the U.S.-Mexico border wall in 2019 symbolizes the mindset needed for positive immigration solutions.
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Corporate deep-sea mining dreams threaten Mexico’s marine life
Mining interests hoping to dredge the ocean floor for resources could end up disrupting and poisoning sea habitats off the Pacific west coast.
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Campeche is one of six inaugural BlueCommunities worldwide
The state of Campeche quietly continues to attract international attention for its progressive, community-driven environmental programs.
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In Mexico’s deep south, some chinks of light can be seen in the months ahead
The outlook for the coming year will depend a great deal on the success of Covid vaccination.
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Feminist protests reveal deeply embedded structural issues in society and culture
The Mexican state has no solutions to gender-based violence and very little inclination to look for them.
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Mexicans have fond and vivid memories of Diego Maradona
The Argentinian soccer player was the big attraction at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico City.
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Report condemns business practices in Mexico during Covid pandemic
The Business and Human Rights Resource Centre found corporate negligence was ignoring workers’ rights and putting their lives at risk.
