Couch's Spadefoot and Texas Toads, They Live Here too.

Almost every day animals and plants living in what remains of the desert die either directly or indirectly as the result of efforts to develop more homes and businesses for people.




Unfortunately an overall out of sight out of mind way of thinking is seriously contributing to the demise of countless species of plants and animals living in the Chihuahuan Desert. Over the years we have developed a philosophy that growth is good because it results in economic development, but is this always going to be the way we think? Will there ever be a time when we say to ourselves that our city has grown large enough because of limited resources?

Cities and smaller community on both sides of the US/Mexico border are systematically destroying unique Chihuahuan Desert habitat.

No one can say how many living things, both animal and plant, die here every day because of human impacts on the land. Most of these living things are unknown to the masses, but they still exist. They include all kinds of little animals like the spadefoot and Texas toads in this video, kangaroo rats, kingsnakes, horned lizards, whiptail lizards, vinegaroons, tarantulas, and a host of desert plant species. Larger animals suffer too when they loose the wild places that they need for cover to raise their babies and search for food. They include mule deer, gray foxes, desert cottontails, rock squirrels, and birds like blue and Gambel's quail, desert sparrows, roadrunners and more.

Our overall lack of knowledge and denial of life's most important reality, how all of us are connected to what happens in the natural world, is destroying the Chihuahuan Desert. The World Wildlife Fund and many other conservation organizations recognize our desert as one of the most endangered ecosystems in the world, but how many people who live here know and understand?

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