4:46 After more than a year, people are buying tickets and popcorn at The Guild Cinema in Albuquerque. Owner Keif Henley scrambled to re-open when the state revamped its color-coded risk system recently. Bernalillo County was suddenly in the least restrictive turquoise phase.
He’s still limited to 33% capacity - or just 36 people – in the single-screen theater.
“Some businesses can t reopen it at 25% or even 33%,” Henley says. “Their overhead is too much. We can limp along.”
With virus restrictions easing around New Mexico, movie theaters are beginning to open again. Many smaller independent movie houses managed to stay afloat during the pandemic, but they may look different moving forward.
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Tucson, Ariz. (March 16, 2021) - This week, a new, peer-reviewed scientific study finds that there is far more potential jaguar habitat in the U.S. than was previously thought. Scientists identified an area of more than 20 million acres that could support jaguars in the U.S., 27 times the size of designated critical habitat.
The results, published in the journal
Oryx, are based on a review of 12 habitat models for jaguars within Arizona and New Mexico, conclusively identifying areas suitable for the recovery of these wild cats. Based on the expanded habitat area, the authors conclude that findings uncover new opportunities for jaguar conservation in North America that could address threats from habitat loss, climate change, and border infrastructure.