Scientists and farmers restore Aztec-era floating farms that house axolotls mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mexico's Conservation Crusade for Axolotls latinamericanpost.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from latinamericanpost.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Mexican 'Adoptaxolotl' campaign races to save iconic, endangered species from pollution and non-native trout columbian.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from columbian.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Academics in Mexico City are asking for donations to protect axolotls, an iconic fish-like type of salamander. The campaign asks people for as little as 600 pesos to virtually adopt one of the tiny “water monsters.” In their main habitat the population density of Mexican axolotls has plummeted 99.5% in under two decades, according to scientists. Scientists say there is still not enough support for the endangered “water monsters.” Almost all 18 species of axolotl in Mexico remain critically endangered, threatened by encroaching water pollution, a deadly amphibian fungus and non-native rainbow trout.