Future Prospects for this Ecosystem

Although the both Mexico and the United States have actively been working on the planning and preservation of the desert landscape and wildlife, there are issues that will continue to affect the future of the Sonoran Desert. What used to be in isolation is not a vast tourist attractions and construction of new attractions has appealed to more people in areas such as Rosarito and Cabo Pulmo. Due to an increase in popularity, humans have been transforming and will continue transforming sections of the desert into tourist attraction. There is already road construction all across the Baja California Peninsula, which have already demolished much of the environmental habitats in the desert, the highways are continuously subject to renovation. This will undoubtedly cause more destruction and disruption on the land and it’s wildlife (8). 

Highway construction across the peninsula in which some
areas are subject to renovation (while others are just developing).

Road construction in Baja California Desert.
http://www.bajagoodlifenews.com/2012/02/baja-highway-construction-update.html 

Mining and grazing are other potential future issues that threaten the Sonoran Desert. “It is the tearing up of the land and exporting the natural resources from the earth” that will leave the desert with “damaged soil and contaminated water” (7). If these issues continue in its intensity, the ecosystem is in danger of losing its endemic wildlife because of the environmental destruction. Although some of the mining has been closed down before, the people living in those regions underwent an extreme period of job loss and thus, had to be opened once again (7). Unless Mexico is able to find new environmentally friendly jobs for people in these regions, mining will continue to tear up the land and it’s species (7).

Mining in Baja California: Devastation of animal habitat and
tearing of the land.
http://www.sandiegoreader.com/users/photos/2012/oct/26/34409/