![]() While academics rely on donations and Calzada’s team turns to a corps of volunteers, the Mexican government recently approved an 11% funding cut for its environment department. ![]() Mexico City’s expanding urbanization has damaged the water quality of the canals, while in lakes around the capital rainbow trout which escape from farms can displace axolotls and eat their food.Ĭalzada said his team is increasingly finding axolotls dead from chrytid fungus, a skin-eating disease causing catastrophic amphibian die offs from Europe to Australia. But other species can be found across the country, from tiny streams in the valley of Mexico to the northern Sonora desert. In the past, government conservation programs have largely focused on the most popular species: the Mexican axolotl, found in Xochimilco. ![]() In labs around the world, scientists think this healing power could hold the secret to tissue repair and even cancer recovery. “What I know is that we have to work urgently,” said Calzada.Īxolotls have grown into a cultural icon in Mexico for their unique, admittedly slimy, appearance and uncanny ability to regrow limbs. Without data on the number and distribution of different axolotl species in Mexico, it is hard to know how long the creatures have left, and where to prioritize what resources are available.
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