Axons are very important End of extinction. According to the IUCN red list of threatened species, these aquatic monsters (a national symbol on the Mexican 50 pesos bill, once considered the sacred entity, namely the “twins” of Aztec Quetzalcoatl, are “extremely high risk of extinction in the wild”.
These numbers are the best. In 1998, its natural habitat (the Xochimilco district in the south of Mexico City) was 6,000 kilometers per square kilometer. By 2004, this number had dropped to 1,000, and by 2008, it had only 100. A 2014 census of the wild Axolotl population in Mexico found only 36 species of organisms. Now, ten years later, a new investigation is underway. The Xochimilco is home to the remnants of the massive network of canals built by the Aztecs and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, although the region faces ecological deterioration due to increased urbanization.
Everything shows that for Axolotl, countdown continues. But there is one last hope. Scientists at the Ecological Restoration Laboratory of the National Autonomous University (UNAM), which is responsible for the Axolotl Census, are seeking to reverse this trend and protect one of the oldest terrestrial vertebrates on Earth.
“The purpose of the census is to understand the current status of the Axolotl population,” said Luis Zambrano, project leader and founder of the Ecological Restoration Laboratory. He said public sightings are important, but to ensure they exist in the wild, evidence is needed. It also confirms that Axolotls still exist in Xochimilco, and estimates that the researchers plan to conduct campaigns to combat misinformation about the species and guide conservation and guidance conservation, and strengthen the wild population by releasing raised individuals. The final results of the survey will be released in the first half of 2025 and a new count is planned for 2026.
Wired witnessed how scientists Vania Mendoza, Viviam Crespo and Paola Cervantes held churches with local villagers like Basilio Rodríguez. They used traditional fishing techniques as well as innovative methods such as environmental DNA analysis, which can be traced by finding DNA that captures DNA into surrounding habitats.
The investigation took place at the dawn of Xochimilco, one of the last remains of the Paleola system in the Mexican Basin, where modernity removed from other parts of Mexico City can still survive. This is a magical oasis of the monster capital, and it looks like something from a Mexican fairy tale, and the sound of herons and pelicans are heard as the sun rises. As we crossed the landscape on the raft, we saw that the lake was still full of chinampas, the artificial agricultural island was first developed during the Hispanic period, which surprised the first Spanish to come to these lands.
Axolotl has four legs and a long tail, which is nighttime and carnivorous. They appear in four different colors: Wild Axe has a black brown tone, while variants of the mutant include light brown (white white white), white white white and golden albinism. “So far, we haven’t found any Axolotls; however, DNA analysis offers opportunities,” Paola Cervantes, a graduate of Earth Sciences and part of the UNAM team’s census this year.
