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Chinampa Refuges: Aztec Farm Islands Turned Axolotl Sanctuaries

Food & Farming

🇲🇽 Mexico

Mexico City's last Aztec-era floating farms are being rebuilt as clean-water refuges for the axolotl — and the farmers who maintain them are the conservation strategy.

36chinampasChinampas restored as axolotl refuges
6,000axolotls per km2Wild axolotl density in Xochimilco, 1996
36axolotls per km2Wild axolotl density in Xochimilco, 2014
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