Isla Socorro
Isla Socorro is part of the Mexican Pacific. This volcanic island has the greatest conservation
priority in Mexico. About 30 percent of its plants are endemics and all of the terrestrial
vertebrates are endemic to the species or subspecies level. On this island one can find several
critically endangered species such as Townsend's Shearwater, the Socorro Mockingbird, and
the Socorro Parakeet. The Socorro Dove was extirpated from its natural habitat in the early
1970's. Endémicos Insulares participates with a consortium of institutions in the United States,
Europe and Mexico in developing a program for the comprehensive restoration of Isla Socorro.
These efforts will facilitate the return of the Socorro Dove to its ancestral island.
Isla Cozumel
Isla Cozumel is found in the Mexican Caribbean. This island is among the largest in Mexico.
The great number of species and subspecies of endemic birds, its dwarf mammalian fauna
and other biogeographical features make Cozumel the second island conservation priority in
the country. The Cozumel Thrasher is without question the most endangered bird in Mexico.
Endémicos Insulares works with Villanova University and the Fundación de Parques y Museos
de Cozumel to monitor the island's avifauna and to develop management schemes that will
allow the future viability of the island's unique flora and fauna that make Cozumel a true
biogeographical treasure.
Socorro Dove
by Hans Peeters
© Island Endemics Foundation
Endémicos Insulares, A. C.
Visit the webste of
our sister
organization in the
United States and
learn of our efforts
to Save the Socorro
Dove..
Visit the website ot
our partner in the
United States to save
the Cozumel
Thrasher from
extinction.
Visit the website of
the IV North
American
Orhithological
Conference of which
we are Local Hosts.
Endémicos Insulares is the sister institution of the Island Endemics Foundation in the United
States of America. Their members have participated since 1988 in the study and conservation of
the endemic avifauna of the Revillagigedo Archipelago. Recently, the program of this NGO has
increased to cover other oceanic islands in Mexico and soon work will begin on biogeographic
islands to protect other endemic birds threaten with extinction. Endémicos Insulares and the
Island Endemics Foundation are members of the Alliance for Zero Extinction where a great
number of organizations worldwide participate to protect critically endangered vertebrates.
An institution dedicated to the study and conservation of Mexican
endemics that inhabit oceanic and biogeographic islands.
