Join us and be a Voice for wildlife
building pathways of compassionate coexistence between people and wildlife
The Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center is dedicated to helping the community walk as if every step is a prayer on Mother Earth and live in harmony with wildlife.
We are blessed to be located in the Madrean Archipelago/ Sky Island eco-region of southeastern Arizona, an area of globally significant biodiversity, harboring the highest diversity of mammals, birds, bees, and ants in the United States.
In heartfelt gratitude we will walk our talk and be present with love and compassion for each other as people and for all Mother Earth's relations.
The Grandmother Cottonwoods are rooted within all of us now. June through October 2026, a community of fierce beautiful land defenders stood courageously together in prayer, song and direct action to protect The Grandmother Cottonwoods and Lochiel, AZ from border wall destruction. We stopped construction for 75 days, for 20 miles. Binational tree-sits positioned high in the branches of the Grandmothers that now stand no more. Cruel heartless destructors cut through the paths of animals who have migrated here since before any border existed, tearing up fragile land and draining what keeps everything alive. The land remembers and so do the people that love it. My Grandmother Cottonwood drum shared my heartbeats, all our heartbeats. We stand in our collective power united, resolved and rooted. We will continue. We will never give up. All Walls Will Fall! Tierra Libre! Free the Land! Free the People!
Grandmother Cottonwood listens to the heartbeats, June 2026, Lochiel, AZ
Let Wildlife Migrate sticker, 3 inches by 3 inches. Art by Virginia Maria Romero, produced by Tony Heath MAWC Media 2023
Help us restore and preserve Birdland Ranch,
a wildlife and biodiversity hotspot
The Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center is helping wildlife by restoring and preserving Birdland Ranch, a remote wildlife area and biodiversity hotspot, home locally to 154 bird species, endangered top predators, neotropical birds and more in a rich ecosystem.
“The nearby San Pedro River corridor supports two-thirds of the avian diversity of the entire United States, including more than 100 species of breeding birds and 300 migrant birds.” (R.J. Luce, pg 3, San Pedro Anthology) Wildlife infrastructure projects include maintaining and upgrading an extensive cavity nest-box trail to preserve threatened species, habitat restoration, and repairing our raptor barn.
Tierra Libre No Borders Camp
November 11- 17
The Madrean Archipelago Wildlife Center has been working hard to amplify the ecocide and the horrendous impacts of the border wall along our beautiful borderlands.
For more info visit Tierra Libre website,
https://www.camp-oshad.org
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