Mexico

A College of Veterinary Medicine group joined an international volunteer effort in Mazunte, Mexico, that seeks to save sea turtles by keeping community dog populations in check.

One of the DEIJ Grant projects aims to create an online networking platform for Indigenous smallholder farmers in Mexico's mountain regions.

Since 2009, over 61,000 people have disappeared in Mexico with little to no investigation into what happened. The unsupported explanation is that these disappearances were solely connected to fights between drug cartels. University of Minnesota Human Rights Program Director Barbara Frey is helping reveal what really happened to these disappeared people.