Conservation

Lake Xochimilco, where axolotl were once abundant and are now scare, is part of a 6,000 acre area of wetlands which is now a protected area. Local farmers are returning to a traditional farming technique that involves growing crops on floating rafts made of branches, reeds and nutrient rich mud from the lake. These food … Read more

Published in January of 2022, this article on axolotl conservation happenings, says somewhere from 50-1000 axolotls are living in the wild. The government of Mexico designated 520 acres as protected axolotl habitat in 1993, and the founder of a brewery with his team recently released eleven mating pairs of Axolotl in ponds on a university … Read more