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Samuel Gilbert

Samuel Gilbert is a journalist based in the south-western US.

April 2026

  • a man holds a US flag outside

    Trump’s latest border wall plans to slice through Big Bend national park: ‘Our lives are being upended’

    The rural Texas region, long spared, is being fast-tracked for the border wall amid bipartisan opposition

May 2025

  • Section of Trump's border wall

    Trump’s new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass

    The San Rafael valley in Arizona is home to bears, mountain lions and wolves – now their movement will be restricted

January 2025

  • A stretch of the border wall

    ‘It’s an absolute travesty’: fears for border wildlife as Trump takes office

    Environmentalists are braced for new construction on the president’s signature border wall – and the damage that would wreak

June 2024

  • A collage of three side-by-side images shows several cobs of corn, two women holding fresh onions and a construction site.

    Our unequal earth
    ‘A sanctuary’: how neglected Native American communities are organizing their own food hubs

    The hubs seek to produce, store and distribute food to the one-quarter of Native Americans experiencing food insecurity

February 2024

  • A jaguar in the wild at night

    The age of extinction
    ‘I was thrilled and shocked’: images raise hopes of return of wild jaguars to the US

    A series of sightings suggests the big cats are, against the odds, growing in numbers in New Mexico and Arizona. But Trump’s border wall could yet halt their progress

June 2023

  • Woman standing among cacti

    Our unequal earth
    ‘It healed me’: the Indigenous forager reconnecting Native Americans with their roots

    Twila Cassadore hopes teaching Western Apache traditional foodways can aid mental, emotional and spiritual health

March 2023

  • Dirt road in Dunbar Spring

    Our unequal earth
    ‘A living pantry’: how an urban food forest in Arizona became a model for climate action

    A decades-old neighborhood project in Tucson provides food to residents as well as shade to cool streets in the third-fastest warming city in the US

April 2022

  • Man wearing a blue bandana stands for a portrait in a dry corn field

    Our unequal earth
    Blue corn and melons: meet the seed keepers reviving ancient, resilient crops

    In north-western New Mexico, traditional Indigenous farming methods are being passed down to protect against the effects of climate crisis

January 2021

  • Construction Of Border Wall Continues In Arizona<br>ARIVACA, AZ - JANUARY 12: The graves of migrants are shown as construction continues along the border wall with Mexico championed by U.S. President Donald Trump on January 12, 2021 in Arivaca, Arizona. Trump visited Texas Tuesday to highlight efforts on the border even as Democratic lawmakers sought to bring impeachment charges for the second time of his administration in response to the riot by a mob of supporters who stormed the Capitol last week. (Photo by Micah Garen/Getty Images)

    2020 was deadliest year for migrants crossing unlawfully into US via Arizona

  • Construction along the border wall at Signal Mountain outside of Mexicali, California

    'My neighbourhood is being destroyed to pacify his supporters': the race to complete Trump's wall

December 2020

  • El Jefe

    This land is your land
    Trump’s border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars in the US

    Wall is going up in four sections in Arizona’s mountain ranges spanning the US-Mexico border where the cats had reappeared

October 2020

  • A view through the recently constructed border wall into Mexico at Organ Pipe National Monument.

    This land is your land
    'An incredible scar': the harsh toll of Trump's 400-mile wall through national parks

    Samuel Gilbert visited four distinct wilderness areas near the new border wall, which is fragmenting protected habitats and threatening endangered species

June 2020

  • Than Tsídéh, 19, of the Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo dances on the empty platform where a statue of Juan de Oñate was removed.

    This land is your land
    Protests target Spanish colonial statues that 'celebrate genocide' in US west

    Native Americans in New Mexico have held protests to demand that effigies glorifying conquistadors be removed
  • Shooting At Protest In Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - 15 Jun 2020<br>Mandatory Credit: Photo by Adolphe Pierre-Louis/Albuquerque Journal via ZUMA/REX/Shutterstock (10681999ax) STEVEN BACA ,31, center and members of the New Mexico Civil Guard are taken onto custody by APD officers after Baca fired shots and wounded a man as the crowd tried to take down the statue of Don Juan de Onate Statue in Old Town. Shooting At Protest In Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA - 15 Jun 2020

    This land is your land
    Armed vigilantes under scrutiny after statue protester shot in New Mexico

    Armed militia members were out in force at demonstration when a protester was shot while he and others tried to bring down conquistador statue
  • Inside the home of Forrest Fenn, an eccentric millionaire who says he hid his treasure somewhere in the Rocky Mountains.

    This land is your land
    X marks the spot: treasure hunters in shock after reported $2m find in Rocky Mountains

    Reactions to the announcement by eccentric millionaire Forrest Fenn that his hoard had been found range from surprise to delight and dismay

May 2020

  • Statewide Drought Takes Toll On California’s Lake Oroville Water Level<br>OROVILLE, CA - AUGUST 19: The Enterprise Bridge passes over a section of Lake Oroville that is nearly dry on August 19, 2014 in Oroville, California. As the severe drought in California continues for a third straight year, water levels in the State’s lakes and reservoirs is reaching historic lows. Lake Oroville is currently at 32 percent of its total 3,537,577 acre feet. (Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

    This land is your land
    US south-west in grip of historic 'megadrought', research finds

  • Visitors watch Old Faithful erupt on Monday afternoon on Yellowstone national park’s opening day.

    This land is your land
    'Not a mask in sight': thousands flock to Yellowstone as park reopens

  • Residents of a public shelter wait as soldiers disinfect their neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro, Brazi

    Coronavirus live
    Coronavirus: No Danish virus deaths for first time since March – as it happened

  • FILE - This Sept. 15, 2015, file photo, shows Zion National Park near Springdale, Utah. Zion National Park announced Monday, Marc h 23, 2020, it is closing its campgrounds and part of a popular trail called Angel’s Landing that is often crowded with people. The top part of the hike that is being closed is bordered by steep drops and ascends some 1,500 feet (457 meters) above the southern Utah park’s red-rock cliffs, offering sweeping views.(AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

    This land is your land
    US national park reopenings raise fears of coronavirus outbreaks

April 2020

  • US-MEXICO-BORDER-IMMIGRATION-ENVIRONMENT<br>The United States-Mexico border wall is seen in Organ Pipe National Park south of Ajo, Arizona, on February 13, 2020. - Construction of US President Donald Trump’s border wall in the area has destroyed many species including the Organ Pipe Cactus. (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER / AFP) (Photo by SANDY HUFFAKER/AFP via Getty Images)

    This land is your land
    Pandemic fears in border towns as workers flock in to build Trump's wall

    Hundreds of workers pass through Ajo, Arizona, daily. Residents say they have been partying and visiting stores in large groups
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