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Hotspots - Madrean Pine-Oak Woodlands (30) More files...
The Madrean Pine-Oak Woodland hotspot covers Mexico's main mountain chains, plus isolated mountain top islands in the US states of New Mexico and Arizona. It is renowned for plant biodiversity, including 40 species of pines and 135 species of oaks (of which 85 are endemic). The greatest wildlife spectacle of this hotspot is the annual overwintering of 100-150 million monarch butterflies. The main threat to this hotspot is from unsustainable logging of both pines and oaks.
Clouds of Monarch butterflies {Danaus plexippus} flying and resting on trees while on migration, Miochacan, Mexico, January 1997
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Inaki Relanzon / Clouds of Monarch butterflies {Danaus plexippus} flying and resting on trees while on migration, Miochacan, Mexico, January 1997
Colony of Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) hibernating on Oyamel fir trees (Abies religiosa) El Zacatal Colony, Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Mexico, December 1996
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Claudio Contreras / Colony of Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) hibernating on Oyamel fir trees (Abies religiosa) El Zacatal Colony, Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary, Mexico, December 1996
Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) hibernating, Mariposa Monarca Special Biosphere Reserve, central Mexico, January.
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Claudio Contreras / Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) hibernating, Mariposa Monarca Special Biosphere Reserve, central Mexico, January.
Bell's false brook salamander (Pseudoeurycea bellii) camouflaged on leaf litter, Huichol Sierra, western Mexico, July
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Claudio Contreras / Bell's false brook salamander (Pseudoeurycea bellii) camouflaged on leaf litter, Huichol Sierra, western Mexico, July
Barking frog {Eleutherodactylus augusti} Mexico.
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Barry Mansell / Barking frog {Eleutherodactylus augusti} Mexico.
Thick billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) Chihuahua, Mexico
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Patricio Robles Gil / Thick billed parrot (Rhynchopsitta pachyrhyncha) Chihuahua, Mexico
Thick billed parrot, native to Mexico. Endangered species
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Rod Williams / Thick billed parrot, native to Mexico. Endangered species
Slevin's Bunchgrass Lizard (Sceloporus slevini) against bark. Sierra de Ajos National Forest, northwest Mexico, July.
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Claudio Contreras / Slevin's Bunchgrass Lizard (Sceloporus slevini) against bark. Sierra de Ajos National Forest, northwest Mexico, July.
Horned guan (Oreophasis derbianus) standing in a tree, El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico.
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TOM MANGELSEN / Horned guan (Oreophasis derbianus) standing in a tree, El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Sierra Madre de Chiapas, Mexico.
Flowering Yucca (Yucca sp) amongst fog-shrouded oaks draped with spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), Sierra Tamaulipas, Mexico
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Jack Dykinga / Flowering Yucca (Yucca sp) amongst fog-shrouded oaks draped with spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides), Sierra Tamaulipas, Mexico
Giant Sabino tree (Taxodium sp) with agaves (Agave sp) growing on its branches, beside a pool at Minas Viejas Falls in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
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Jack Dykinga / Giant Sabino tree (Taxodium sp) with agaves (Agave sp) growing on its branches, beside a pool at Minas Viejas Falls in San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Pine tree draped with moss, and a bromeliad growing on it, in the cloud forest of El Cielo Biosphere Reserve on a misty morning. Tamaulipas, Mexico
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Jack Dykinga / Pine tree draped with moss, and a bromeliad growing on it, in the cloud forest of El Cielo Biosphere Reserve on a misty morning. Tamaulipas, Mexico