The race against time to save Xochimilco, Mexico City’s ancient wetland

Xochimilco was once the garden of what today is Mexico City, until the voracious urban growth of one of the hemisphere’s largest capitals wound up absorbing it. Today, its labyrinth of canals constitutes a kind of rural island in the metropolis, and its survival is under constant threat. Among the wetlands and boats, dozens of people are resisting and searching for ways to preserve the area’s ancestral ways of life and its greatest symbol: the axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum). The key lies in the water.

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