The Guadalajara Reporter
Guadalajara's Largest English Newspaper
A few years ago I reported on a curious eco-training center on Lake Chapala’s south shore called Igloo Kokolo which looks, more than anything, like a Smurf village.
Visitors to the pueblo mágico of Tapalpa inevitably wander outside the town to see the area’s famed Piedrotas or Great Rocks.
Once upon a time, Mexico had a first-rate network of Animal Rescue Centers.
In the third installment of my Life in Rural Mexico series, I’ll introduce you to two groups of people who, I am told, are found in many rural communities in Mexico, not just my own.
The appearance of Covid-19 has forced most schools to switch to remote learning. For many this may have been quite a challenge, but not for Luis Medina, director of Guadalajara’s IMI College.
One day Parque el Jabalí – Wild Boar Park – popped up on Facebook.
At one time, Mexico had an excellent nationwide network of centers – founded in 1988 under the umbrella of the Centro para la Conservación e Investigación de la Vida Silvestre (CIVS) – dedicated to rehabilitating and returning to the wild all sorts of exotic animals which, for one reason or another, found themselves in deep trouble.
