Gerardo Ceballos

Prairie dogs

How the prairie dog could help restore the ancient grasslands of Mexico and the American West

Environment

Black-tailed prairie dogs once numbered in the billions across the grasslands of the Western US and Mexico, but ranchers essentially exterminated the rodent to make way for livestock. Now conservationists are working to revive the once-thriving prairie dog community and the Mexican prairie along with them.

Prairie dogs could be saviors of Mexico’s former prairies

Environment