ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月1日 12時12分

This convent in Pátzcuaro, Mexico, is home to 2 dozen nuns. But it also hosts a large number of unexpected residents: a thriving colony of endangered #salamanders. Scientists call them Ambystoma dumerilii, but to the nuns and everyone else in Pátzcuaro, they’re achoques. About 300 of these wondrous little monsters live in the convent. The nuns support themselves partly by selling a cough syrup made from the salamanders’ skin. But the achoques are increasingly valuable for another reason: This captive colony may be critical to the salamanders’ prospects in the wild. They’re found nowhere but Lake Pátzcuaro, and outside the convent their numbers are falling fast. When they began to disappear from the lake, the nuns established the convent’s colony. “What would we do — not make any syrup?” Sister Ofelia said in Spanish. But eventually the women came to recognize a conservation imperative in their work. “It’s about protecting a species from nature,” Sister Ofelia said. “If we don’t work to take care of it, to protect it, it will disappear from creation.” @adrianazehbrauskas photographed Sister Rosa Cortez cleaning an aquarium. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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