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Reserva Monte Mojino (ReMM) is a conservation project in southern Sonora, east-northeast of the city of Alamos. It lies within the 93,000-hectare Sierra de Alamos y Río Cuchujaqui Federal Area for the Protection of Flora and Fauna. The mission of ReMM is to foster protection of the tropical deciduous forest and Río Cuchujaqui watershed in southern Sonora. To achieve our mission, we apply scientific research and the knowledge of local people to sustain this unique landscape in an ever-changing world. ReMM is a bi-national conservation effort of two nonprofit organizations, Nature and Culture International (NCI) and Naturaleza y Cultura Sierra Madre, A.C. (NCSM) NCSM and NCI work hand-in-hand to raise awareness of the critical importance of protecting the tropical deciduous forest and Río Cuchujaqui watershed in southern Sonora. 

The mission of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is to inspire people to live in harmony with the natural world by fostering love, appreciation, and understanding of the Sonoran Desert.

Birds, bats, bees, butterflies, beetles, and other small mammals that pollinate plants are responsible for bringing us one out of every three bites of food. 

They also sustain our ecosystems and produce our natural resources by helping plants reproduce. 

Without the actions of pollinators agricultural economies, our food supply, and surrounding landscapes would collapse. 

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation is an international nonprofit organization that protects wildlife through the conservation of invertebrates and their habitats. We take our name from the now extinct Xerces Blue butterfly (Glaucopsyche xerces), the first butterfly known to go extinct in North America as a result of human activities.

Bat Conservation International recognizes both the immense conservation value and the inherent vulnerability of areas where extraordinary numbers of distinct bat species are present.

These areas present great value and are deserving of conservation due to their uniqueness and their habitat’s ability to support vast numbers of species with differing ecological processes, along with the efficiency of being able to protect so many species in a single effort.

It is also important to avoid tragedies of the commons, by overlooking species or areas because of their apparent abundance. This is especially important in the case of bats because small areas of abundance, with high numbers of species or large populations can also be extremely vulnerable to catastrophic events or the emergence of new threats due to the compact, colonial-roosting nature of many species.

To preserve these vital “bat hot spots,” BCI will seek out opportunities to leverage its conservation impact by identifying and protecting landscapes of high ecological integrity with high bat species diversity.

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