Scientists & nuns unite to save Mexico’s rare achoque salamanders

Mongabay
Nov 18, 2025, 7:14 am125 ptsTrending
For the last 20 years, Dominican nuns in a Mexican monastery have cared for the largest known captive population of the critically endangered achoque salamander. Now scientists from Chester Zoo in the U.K. are collaborating with the sisters and Mexican conservationists to test a microchipping method that they…

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