In 2022 New Mexico Wild commissioned a study from EcoAdapt, an independent, nongovernmental organization consisting of a team of climate scientists. The study, released in April 2023, evaluates how protecting public lands in New Mexico can help address climate change and biodiversity loss with the goal of identifying where new protections would have the greatest positive impact and informing New Mexico Wild’s priorities.

The Carlsbad Current Argus recently reported on the climate study’s findings on the impact of oil and gas extraction on public lands in an article titled “More New Mexico land must be saved from oil and gas to prevent climate crisis, study says.”

“Lands the study advocated for protection were spread throughout New Mexico and included areas of the state’s national forests and parks along with swaths of land in its two main fossil fuel regions: the southeast Permian Basin and northwest San Juan Basin.”

Read the full article from the Carlsbad Current Argus here. Find a summary report of the EcoAdapt climate study, and the full report, by clicking here.