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Curriculum vitae Patricio Robles Gil, March 2024

  • 1954 Born in Mexico City.

  • 1972-1975 Industrial Design, Degree, Universidad Iberoamericana, Mexico City.

  • 1976 Works in Advertacing, in Alas agency, Madrid, Spain.

  • 1977 Postdegree in Marketing and publicity, Instituto Mercadotecnia y Publicidad, Mexico City.

  • 1984 Sold the idea and illustrated four different back covers, for Maizoro brand of cereals, about Mexico´s diversity of avifauna.

  • 1984 His first art book, Ecosistemas de México. photography by him and his brother, texts by Ramón Pérez Gil. BCH Bank. This book coined the term ecosystems in Mexico outside the academia. 

  • 1988 Second book, The Land of the Quetzal and the Jaguar, its natural history. And Art book that presents the Natural History of south east Mexico. Publish in Spanish and English for Chrysler Mexico.

  • 1989 Patricio´s photographs of endangered Fauna appeared seven times in National Geography Magazine, Famous Cannon adds, Wildlife as Cannon Sees It. His famous photo of a group of Scarlet Macaws flying, taken from above were selected for the front cover of this commemorative campaign book.

  • 1989 he founded Agrupación Sierra Madre SC, an organization whose mission would be the conservation of biodiversity and the wild lands of Mexico and the World, he was a pioneer in Mexico in involving corporations in the conservation of the natural world.

  • 1989-2024 Since its founding in 1989 Agrupacion Sierra Madre, has uninterruptedly published a calendar with photographs of fauna from Mexico and the world, which has been acquired, personalize and distributed by more than 300 companies, museums, universities and NGOs. Parallel since 1997 second and larger calendar, has presented environmental world topics, distributed by the many allies of Sierra Madre and Unidos para la Conservacion.

  •  1989 Memorial del Tiempo group exhibition: 150 years of photography in Mexico. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, National Council for Culture and the Arts. National Institute of Fine Arts, INBA. Patricio´s photos with another two colleagues where the only nature images. 

  • 1991 Art book La Lacandonia, el último Refugio. The Rector of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, José Sarukhan, ask Patricio to edit a book about the most important Rain Forest in Mexico. The presentation was at the capital of Chiapas, Tuxtla Gutiérrez City Hall, with the presence of the Governor of the State Patrocinio Gonzalez. The book receives an award from Mexico´s National Chamber of the Publishing Industry.

  • 1992 Founded the environmental organization United for Conservation AC, which together with Sierra Madre, they reintroduced twice the Mexican pronghorn (Antilocapra americana mexicana) to Coahuila state, where the population of this mammal was lost, in the 1950s. Years later they introduced another extinct species to the same region, the desert bighorn sheep to the Sierra del Carmen. 

  • 1992-2024 ASM, UPC has Launched awareness campaigns on priority species and ecosystems in Mexico, working closely with Museums, the Academia, the Media, and the Private Sector, through a diverse spectrum of formats, congresses, exhibitions, talks, documentaries, books, brochures, posters, postage stamps, from regions such as the Gulf of California, the Lacandon Rain Forest, the Triunfo Cloud Forest, the Sonoran and Chihuahua Desert, and species such as the elegant tern, the jaguar, the black bear, the flamingo, the manatee, the harpy eagle, the California condor, the tufted jay, the blue whale, monarch butterfly, sea turtles, the quetzal, the critical endanger marine mammal the vaquita porpoise, bats, and the golden eagle. As an example, in early 1990´s ASM presented the findings of a year’s research of Dr Enriqueta Velarde about how the sardine fisheries will collapse for the over fishing, she studied two marine bird populations in the breeding ground a tiny Island Isla Rasa in the center of the Gulf of California, just by recording the success of the breeding season she could determine how many tons the fisheries will extracted. And exhibition a booklet and a audiovisual was produce. 26 years later the sardine and anchovy collapse so the fishing industry in the region.

  • 1993-2007 Patricio invited famous North American Painters to do a representation of the year campaign animal. To make prints in a limited edition, signed and number and also a postal stamp with Mexico´s Postal Service. Robert Batman, Bob Khun, Hans Peters, William Shepherd, among others did the Resplendent Quetzal, the Sonora Pronghorn, the Golden Eagle, and the Vaquita Porpoise.     

  • 1993-2008 Was the editor and director of the CEMEX international acclaimed environmental book series, he produced the first 15 titles. Patricio´s job was to research for the most advance strategies in the conservation of wilderness and biodiversity worldwide and negotiated with the institution u organization that had worked on those initiatives. He designed the publications in English and Spanish in two different editions, as art books. Most of the information received from the organizations, where scientific driven, and had to be translated for the common people. One of the challenges was to illustrated with the best photography available, in some cases where the research was very resent and had not been photograph yet, in those cases, Patricio travel to these remote areas to document their findings. The distribution was global, over more than 100 countries, thanks to Cemex international business. In some cases, the print run where over 20 thousand copies.   

  • 1993-1994 produce a large format calendar for FORD Motor Company, with Mexico´s fauna and National Parks, in a print run of over 50 thousand copies. Thanks to this union, Sierra Madre, FORD and the Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia INAH, a unique title was publishing the Checklist for the Birds of Palenque arqueological site.  

  • 1993-1995 the CEMEX series began with a trilogy on the natural and cultural diversity of Mexico. presents Mexico as one of the first most diverse countries in the world, cultural and natural speaking. The first Mexican diversity of Fauna. The text by Gerardo Ceballos and Fulvio Eccardi, it was launch with a photographic exhibition at Mexico City Club de Industriales.

  • Mexican Diversity of Flora, the second one, was written by Rodolfo Dirzo, especial trips were made to photograph rare and endemic Mexican flora. In the presentation of this book a large format photo exhibit was shown at the prestigious Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, at Monterrey City, where the Cemex headquarters are located.

  • Mexico´s Diversity of Cultures. The third in the series, highlighted how the biodiversity of the country help to enrich the culture of this megadiversity nation. The text was written by Victor Manuel Toledo, and was presented also with photo exhibit in the Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology, at the main exhibition halls. 

  • This book was also presented with a photographic exhibition in the Museo de las Culturas in Caracas, Venezuela, and in a cultural venue in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic.

  • Parallel to these tree publications, Patricio meet with the experts on different families of fauna and flora, to have a common name in Spanish for some of these groups of Mexico’s biodiversity so, the general public will use them instead of the scientific names that are more confusing. The list of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, pine, oaks, orchids, palms, cacti, where created, and give them to Mexico´s Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad CONABIO. 

  • 1996 he edited and wrote the book Celebration of Life, Testimonies of a Commitment, For the Cemex series. The forward is by Katerine Fuller president of WWF USA. A title that presents the important role that nature photographers play in the conservation of the natural world, presented with a photo exhibit, in one of the Capitol buildings in Washington DC, USA. Years later, in 2004, this book led to the creation of the The International League of Conservation Photographers ILCP, which today brings together the most committed actors in this field.

  • 1996 He designs and convenes, together with WWF Mexico and the Body Shop, The United for Conservation Photographic Contest on Mexico´s nature photography, with more than 100 thousand US dollars in prizes, distributed in 10 different awards, which were individually sponsored by museums, corporations and NGOs. Like The Papalote Children's Museum, the Mexican Bank Banamex and others. More than a thousand photographers participated, reaching 10 thousand images in the contest. Many photo exhibits and publication came from this initiative.

  • 1996 He is invited to give a talk in the North America Nature Photography Association NANPA, in a panel about Photographing North America: Working with and for Nature with photographers Art Wolfe and Jack Dykinga.

  • 1996 immediately after the NANPA meeting Patricio travels to New Mexico USA, to capture a herd of Pronghorn Antilocapra americana mexicana of 60 animals and bring them to Mexico´s Coahuila state, where the species disappeared on the 1950´s, UPC and ASM reintroduce again a group of 90, two years later to Valle Colombia, in Coahuila State. A documentary was produced about these two reintroductions of this mammals to Mexico, El Retorno del Berrendo, shown in Mexico´s TV Channels.

  • 1997 he produced the book, Megadiversity, the Most Biologically Rich Countries on the Planet, a large format art book. This is the first title of the Cemex series that Patricio reach Dr Russell Mittermeier president of Conservation International, to join forces, to highlight their conservation initiatives. On this occasion the strategy behind this world of scientific data, is to highlight 15-nations listed on the book, how privilege they are, having such natural heritage, laid the foundations of the well-being of the nation, but that needs a commitment to secure its future. The book was presented in Washington DC USA at Mexico Casa de la Cultura. The initiative and the book push Mexico´s minister of the environment to lead a group of Megadiversity Countries in negotiations at the world forums. It also was presented at the Generalitat Valenciana in Spain. Won the Benjamín Franklin Gold Award for editorial accomplishments. 

  • 1997 Jamie Rappaport Director of the US Fish & Wildlife Service, gave a recognition to Patricio for his commitment to Mexico´s nature and the world, at Washington DC USA. 

  • 1997 Patricio is invited to join the International Committee for the Recovery of the Vaquita CIRVA, this year was the first estimation of the marine mammal The Vaquita Porpoise Phocoena sinus. 567 individuals survive in the Upper Gulf of California. Patricio commission the painter William Shepherd to do a Vaquita painting, there were not a single photograph of a live one, and he also commission the artist Octavio Gonzáles for a life size bronze sculpture, of a mother and calf. Six sculptures of the Vaquita were made and position in important venues along the Gulf of California.    

  • 1998 Produced the fifth art book of Cemex environmental series, the commemorative book of the Lisbon International Fair, dedicated to the conservation of the seas, the titled Celebration of the Seas Heritage for the Future. The texts are from some of the world’s oceanographers and naturalist, the photographs are from some of the most prestigious photographers. It is published in three languages ​​and presented as the commemorative book of the Lisbon International Fair. He obtains, the Benjamín Franklin Gold Award.

  • 1998 Sierra Madre and CONABIO join forces to print in Spanish the book Peces del Pacífico Oriental Tropical, Fishes of the Tropical Western Pacific, by Gerald R. Allen and D. Ross Robertson. 

  • 1998 he produce and photograph, the book, Sierra Mar y Desierto el Vizcaíno Baja California. A Sierra Madre production that shows one of Mexico´s most remote and beautiful desert and coastal lagoons, the book if presented with a photo exhibit at Mexico City National Museum of Anthropology.

  • 1999 Patricio receives Recognition Award from North American Nature Photography Association. This is given to a NANPA member who has shown outstanding accomplishments.

  • 1999 he produced the Cemex book Hotspots, Earth's most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions, of the Cemex series and the second with Conservation International. The scientific information behind this title, presents and astonishing fact, in 25 regions, in less than the 2 percent of Earth´s land, 70 percent of the world’s biodiversity take refuge. This book did present this research, it did it first that the Nature Magazine publication. The important content of the book makes the BBC's Natural History magazine to listed it, as one of the 40 environmental classics, ever. Patricio photograph 19 of those regions for the book. Presentation and photographic exhibition at the World Bank Washington DC, USA. 

  • 1999 he negotiates and Curates the photographic exhibition, An Encounter with Nature, at Medico’s City Centro de la Image. Managing to fill this important venue dedicated to the art of photography. Tree colleagues and Patricio participate with their work, with images by Frans Lanting, Fulvio Eccardi, and Antonio Vizcaino. Soon after the inauguration an international complaint against the Centro de la Imagen was orchestrated because of the exhibit, arguing that nature photography is not art.

  • 2000 After 7 years of Patricio´s negotiations with Cemex, he convince the corporation the purchase of 80 thousand hectares of a pine oak and grassland in a mountain range in northern Mexico. El Carmen Flora and Fauna Protected Area is a Biodiversity Hotspot. In 1993 the CEO of Cemex Lorenzo Zambrano ask Patricio to find and area for them to buy to show their commitment. One of the problems that Mexico has protecting their Biosphere reserves and even their National Parks is that Mexico docent own the areas, 80 percent are own by peasants and ranchers, making very hard to do conservation. On the las 24 years since that purchase Cemex have built a research station, took all the barbwire fences and introduced species like the desert bighorn sheep, the pronghorn antelope, the American bison and the elk all of them where extirpated from the region late back, the area now that Cemex owns is 140 thousand hectares, it has become a mega corridor between EUA and Mexico and CEMEX is a player on both sides guarding the land in perpetuity.   

  • 2000 produce the book, Celebration of the Land the Last Sanctuaries. For Cemex. The forward was written by H.R.H. The Prince of Asturias, the book presents 13 of the world’s most emblematic ecoregions, one renown photographer for each chapter. The   presentation and photographic exhibition, was at the Museo de Ciencias Naturales de Madrid, Spain. It won the Benjamin Franklin golden Award.

  • 2001 he produce the book The Gulf of California, a World Apart. For another mexican company call Pegasus. The texts was writen by several experts on diferent ecological virtues of this incredeble ecosistem, and where cordinated by Dr Exequiel Ezcurra, the photography are by many of Mexicos and USA photographers including Patricio. The first of many presentation where at Mexico City Cultural Casa Lamm, other exhibits where along the 5 states that frame the Gulf of California.

  • 2001 produce the book, The Red Book the Extinction Crisis Face to Face. On this occasion the Cemex books series address the Extinction of species, Patricio negotiates with the International Union of Conservation of Nature IUCN, that work every year to present the RED-LIST, where all endanger species are listed, The Red Book has been the most successful in sales among the publications of the IUCN. On every Cemex edition the corporation donates a large number of books to the organization that partners in that specific year. The book was presented with a photographic exhibition at the Ottawa Museum of Natural History, in Canada. 

  • 2001 Organizes together with OneWorldJourneys.com the media expedition Jaguar. The Lord of the Mayan Jungles, as part of the jaguar (Phantera onca) conservation program in southeastern Mexico in which Unidos para la Conservación and the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico UNAM Institute of Ecology collaborate. A program that has shown the movements of this large predator south of the Yucatan Peninsula, information that help in the decision making of the future development of the Peninsula. A Jaguar documentary was produced.

  • 2002 Produce for Cemex, the book, Wilderness, Earth´s last wild places A large format art book, with more than 550 pages. A strategy of Conservation International and The Wild Foundation, that presents 36 ecoregions, 24 of them photograph by Patricio. The forward is by Gordon Moore, and the presentation and photo exhibit where at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Texas USA.

  • 2002 he receives an honorary mention of El Premio Nacional al Mérito Ecologico by Mexico´s former President Vicente Fox

  • 2003 Produce for Cemex, the art book Wildlife Spectacles, with 32 chapters of animal aggregations from large mammals to invertebrates, the book presents a scientific new definition of a spectacle. Done with the collaboration of Conservation International and the forward is by William G. Conway of New York´s Wildlife Conservation Society.Cemex donate copies of the book to 21 institutions and environmental organizations worldwide. 

  • 2003-2020 perform a series of expeditions to document the Blue Whale in the Gulf of California, He joins the Canadian Blue Whale researcher Dr Dian Gendron at the Autonomous University of Baja California UABC. Patricio invited many colleagues to the expedicions to help spread the importance and treats of this marine mamal. Many publications where the blue whale was highlighted, a short video was produced with Jaime Rojo a Spanish Naturalist and photographer, video seen my millions.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub7P4j5F9VY  

  • 2004 Patricio is chosen to appear in the book, 160 Years of Photography in Mexico, a wild Jaguar photo is published in this history volume. Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, CONACULTA; Editorial Oceano.

  • 2004 Produce the book, The Great Tamaulipan Natural Province, for the Government of Tamaulipas. A book that presents the Natural History of a region between two counties Mexico and the USA. With a special collaboration in the texts by Dr Exequiel Escurra, the book was presented at the headquarters of National Geographic in Washington DC, USA, at El Papalote Children Museum in Mexico City, and at the Natural History Museum of Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas Mexico. Publish in English and Spanish.

  • 2004 Produce the Cemex book, HOTSPOTS Revisited Earth´s Biologically Richest and Most Endangered Terrestrial Ecoregions. A revise title, from the 1999 famous edition.  Russell Mittermeier convince Patricio to reprint the earlier book of HOTSPOTS for the Cemex Series, because of the importance of the 10 new ecoregions, 35 in total. Patricio photograph 26 of them.

  • 2004 because of the success of the tree large format art books about the world biodiversity MEGADIVERSITY, HOTSPOTS AND WILDERENESS the Minister of the Environment in Mexico ask Patricio to produce a print run with only the Mexican chapters of each book. The book Mexico´s Biological Heritage, it was printed in English and Spanish, the idea came from Dr. Exequiel Ezcurra and was presented at Mexico´s City Club de Industriales. 

  • 2005-2006 He directed the production of the documentary El Jaguar; Lord of the Mayan Jungles.

  • 2004 produce a children book about the reintroduction of the Pronghorn El Retorno del Berrendo, with Fabricio Vanden Broeck ilustrations. Publish by CONABIO, Sierra Madre and Unidos para la Conservación 

  • 2005 Launch of the El Carmen Big-Bend Conservation Mega Corridor Initiative at the 8th Wilderness Congress organized in Anchorage, Alaska by the Wild Foundation. A region that protects over 2 million hectares between Mexico´s Coahuila and Chihuahua States and the Us Texas State CEMEX, Conservation International, the National Commission of Protected Areas of Mexico, CONANP and Bird Life International, a initiative designed by Patricio, with more than 1,200 participants, from 70 different countries.

  • 2005 Produce a Cemex book, Transboundry Conservation, A New Vision for Protected Areas. A Conservation International approach that highlights ecoregions where two or more countries meet with protected areas along their borders. The initiative was supported in this book by The Wild Foundation, The World Conservation Union IUCN, and Sierra Madre, the Forward was by Valli Moosa, and the book was presented at the 8th World Wilderness Congress, in Anchorage, Alaska, USA.

  • 2005 Produces the art book, The Call of the Mountains, El Burro, El Carmen and Chisos. The natural History of a Transboundry Mega Corridor between Texas USA and Coahuila Mexico of 2 million hectares, a book that Patricio sold the idea to the Governor of Coahuila, he wrote the text and took all the photos. It was presented at the Museo de arte Moderno in Mexico City, an at the Museo del Desierto, in Saltillo, Coahuila, and several venues in Texas USA. Printed in Spanish and English.

  • 2005 Receives the, Outstanding Nature Photographer of the Year Award, North America Nature Photography Association NANPA. In Denver Colorado, USA.

  • 2006 he organizes the El Carmen – Big Bend Workshop, with the participation of more than 70 government officials, academics, conservationists and ranchers from the USA and Mexico. In Monterrey Mexico.

  • 2006 Produce de Cemex art book, The Human Footprint, Challenges to Conserve Wilderness and Biodiversity. In this occasion it partners with the New York organization Wildlife Conservation Society, that launch years earlier the research the Human Foot Print, a map that presents the human terrestrial impact on Earth, only aerial photographs where shown. The Forward was by Jared Diamond. It was presented with a photographic exhibition at the British Museum of Natural History, London, UK.

  • 2006 produce and photograph the book El Berrendo en México Acciones de Conservación. This ungulate is the fastest mammal in the Americas, unfortunately in Mexico the species is in trouble. The book presents the scientific data of Mexico´s tree subspecies. Publish by Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales SEMARNAT, National Institute of Ecology, CONANP, US Fish & Wildlife Service, Sierra Madre and Unidos para la Conservación 

  • 2006 A new editorial collection of Sierra Madre, Voces de la Tierra, was born, a series of small art books. The first that he produced with his own photography and that of Françoise Gohier, was: Where the Earth breathes and Giants are Born, The Gulf of California. A book about whale watching in one of the world’s best places to sea cetaceans. The presentation was at the San Diego Natural History Museum USA.

  • 2006 he is the creator promoter and coordinates the first RAVE (Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition) expedition of the International League of Conservation Photographers ILCP, for years he tries to convince Conservation International to take photographers, to their RAP´s (Rapid Assessment Program). The CI expeditions where design with only scientist, a group of diverse researchers that they will evaluate, in a short time the biodiversity of remote tropical area, this was at the global scale. Patricio´s idea of global expeditions with well know photographers, to document treating ecosystems, was embrace by ILCP that year. Patricio chosen a highly threaten ecosystem worldwide, The Could Forest. El bosque de neblina de El Triunfo, in Chiapas México. A group of 5 renown nature photographers join him for a 10 day at these highly biodiverse ecosystem. Sponsored by National Geographic Explorer and Reforestamos México. 

  • 2007 Produce the Cemex art book, Birds and People, Bonds in a Timeless Journey. This book was the last that Patricio edited, produce and photograph for Cemex. He was tired of deling with the burocrasy of a large corporation. The conservation liason in this ocassion was with Bird Life International, and organization that had a global partnership with 100 groups and institucions, to all of them Cemex donated a large amound of books, the Preface was writen by H.R.H. Princess Yakamado from Japan, she is the Honorary President of Bird Life International, the Forward was done by the famous Canedian Artist Robert Bateman, The book was presented at the head quartes of the European Union in Brussels, Belgium. 

  • 2007 Obtains the recognition Nature's Best, Conservation Photographer of the Year, Windland Rice International Award 2007. His images are on display at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Washington DC USA:

  • 2007 Coordinates the second RAVE Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition, to Balandra Bay in Baja California Sur, Mexico. One of the World’s most beautiful beaches a marine oasis, that was threatened by development. Patricio gave some photographic material of the RAVE to a Time magazine correspondent that help stop the development, the photographic material was donated to the local NGO and thanks to those images they won and international award.  

  • 2007 Voces de la Tierra Sierra Madre. Collection book, The Secret Life of Cacti. Produce by Patricio Photography by George Huey and Patricio, and text by cactus expert, Dr. Richard Stephen Felger, Publish by Sierra Madre and, CONABIO. English and Spanish

  • 2008 Voces de la Tierra Sierra Madre Collection book, El Triunfo, The Land of a Living Legend. A highly biodiverse ecosystem habited of the resplendent Quetzal. Produce by Patricio Photography by Jack Dykinga, Fulvio Eccardi, Thomas Mangelsen, Patricio Robles Gil and Florian Shultz. Spanish and English. Two important photo exhibitions came from this expedition. One in the headquarters of EPSON corporation and the other in the Papalote Children Museum, in Mexico City. 

  • 2008 produce a second book about El Triunfo RAVE, this time for one of the sponsors the Mexican NGO Reforestamos México and Grupo BIMBO.

  • 2008 Voces de la Tierra Sierra Madre Collection book, Kamchatka, Wilderness at the Edge. Produce by Patricio Text by Igor Shpilenok and photography by Igor and Patricio. The book was distributed in Kamchatka, Rusia, in USA, and Mexico, only in English

  • 2008 on a trip to China Pamir Mountains to document the rare Marcopolo Sheep, Ovis ammon polii, and at an altitude of 4,500 meters, at minus 35 Centigrade, in winter. He had an accident that change his live. His horse drags him down the mountain, by his right foot it got caught in the stirrup of the saddle. He hit a rock and his pelvis was fracture, he had to climb back to the saddle in order to get back to camp. Something completely unexpected specially after 40 years of documenting the wild sheep and goats of the world´s mountains, quest in which he has visited 19 different countries especially in Asia and in more than 100 trips, with ten more trips he could publish a tree art books about these rare an elusive creature. 

  • 2009 Unidos para la Conservacion AC was chosen as the local partner by The Wild Foundation, to brings the Nineth WILD9 Wilderness Congress WILD9 to Mérida Yucatán Mexico the oldest environmental Forum in which anyone can participate. Patricio work for tree years, in several issues searching for financial recourses, to invite the various speakers and the agendas that they proposed. 2009 was not a good year to ask for money, the 2008 collapse of the world’s economy was a big issue for the WILD9 finances. Parallel PRG look to leave in the 2 thousand delegates from 60 countries something to remember.

  • Besides convoking scientist from the CONABIO, the Institute of Ecology and Biology of the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Communicators from Universidad Iberoamericana and young students for the French school Liceo Franco Mexicano just to mention a few, a diverse group NGO´S where present to WWF, The Nature Conservancy, Reforestamos México, Pronatura, Naturalia and many others like the Papalote Children Museum. Patricio focus on different expression trough the arts. Tree books of him where presented. He coordinates the production of 20 life-size jaguar sculptures made of fiberglass an intervened by local artists in collaboration with young girls and boys with different disabilities, the sculptures were positioned in Museo Macay and along Paseo Montejo Merida´s most important avenue. He also produced a performance where artist, models and photographers join forces to do a Body Painting event. He personally invited some of the world most commited nature photographers, Frans Lanting presented LIFE a Journey Through Time, a concert composes by Philp Glass with an audiovisual of Frans images. Michael Nicholspresented the images of his work with the sequoias in California. Patricio invited James Balog to document the sink holes of the Yucatan Peninsula, he also presented his impressive work of the retracting glaciers Extreme Ice Survey, and many more. Four large galleries where build to present four exhibits, one of National Geographic photographers with the team wilderness, another of the incredible work of European photographer in Wild Europe, a third about the Mesoamerican Corridor, at the four one a place where all delegates could hang their own photos. The exhibits were visited free of charge to the public of Merida and many schools visited especially children. A very ambitious Rapid Visual Expedition RAVE about the Yucatan ecoregion was set in motion with the participation of many ILCP photographers, the work of all photographer’s marine and terrestrial were donated to the local NGO´s and media groups. The whole region embracesWILD9 celebrities attend the congress, the President of Mexico Felipe Calderon, primatologist Dr Jane Goodall, oceanographer Dr Silvia Earl, Thomas Lovejoy, business leaders like Daniel Servitje, CEO of Bimbo, Philanthrope Manuel Arango, conservationist Russell Mitermeier

  • 2009 Voces de la Tierra Sierra Madre. Collection book, Mexico´s Natural Wonders. The protected areas of Mexico Presentation at WILD9 Mérida Yucatán. Texts by Ernesto Enkerlin, Photographs by PRG

  • 2009 Voces de la Tierra Sierra Madre. Collection book, Wild Yucatán. Presentation at WILD9 Mérida Yucatán. Text by Joann M. Andrews, photos by PRG

  • 2009 Voces de la Tierra Sierra Madre. Collection book, Wilderness. Presentation at WILD9 Mérida Yucatán. Text by Vance Martin, photos by PRG 

  • 2010 Voces de la Tierra Sierra Madre. Collection book, Reencounters, Pathways in the Sky. Aerial research and photography. Texts and photographs by PRG.

  • 2010 Book, Patrimonio Natural de México: Cien Casos de Éxito. Natural Heritage of Mexico: One Hundred Success Stories, Patricio´s work as divulgator, of research and conservation is one of those success stories. Secretaria de Medio Ambiente y Recursos Naturales, and CONABIO, Publishers. 

  • 2010 Patricio appeared in the 40 most influential nature photographers. Outdoor Photography magazine, Christmas issue

  • 2010 frustrated by the future of wildness on Planet Earth, he retreats from the conservation world, and refuge in the world of art. He starts a series of works that presents some of the most serious treats to the animal world, to this new approach, he calls it The Extinction Rituals. He envisions the sorrow and depression of future generations, for the loss of wilderness and biodiversity. The rituals are created to deal with issues, unsolved problems, and situations that we are not prepare to face with. This new work has help him heal that frustration.

  • 2010 Book, Alliances for Sustainable Development; Business and NGO Partnership. By Laurence Schwesinger. Presents a three case studies. Cemex-Agrupacion Sierra Madre, Mexico. Lafarge-World Wildlife Fund International, France/Switzerland. Rio Tinto-BirdLife International, United Kingdom. Presents the differences between this tree cases and why the CEMEX-Sierra Madre partnership was more successful.

  • 2010 Patricio was invited as a judge for the British Natural History Museum, Wildlife Photographer of the year photo contest, this initiative is one of the world’s most prestigious and advertise through exhibits in important museums. A month later the organizers ask him if he could do the Forward for that year book, that presents the winners and some of the best images of the contest, in the 20th Portfolio.

  • 2010-2011 He travels for 5 months in the Cuiabá River in the Brazilian Mato Grosso in search of wild jaguar, Phantera onca. He encounters these predators 180 times, and identify 40 different jaguars.

  • 2011 Patricio is invited as a photographer to a scientific marine expedition to Islas Marias in the Mexican Pacific, by UC Mexus The University of California Institute for Mexico and the United States, and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, to document the region poorly know biodiversity, he publishes a calendar with the team photographers.

  • 2012 He convoke 59 women of all ages and from 11 different countries, to form a 30-meter-long Blue Whale silhouette in the calm waters of Isla Espiritu Santo in the southern Gulf of California, Mexico. They were speaking through their naked bodies on behave of the largest animal this planet has ever seen. A life-size image was print and hung in the central plaza of the Universidad Iberoamericana, thus The Human Blue Whale was born, where the opera singer Cristina Arias de la Vega gave voice to this great cetacean. A year later The Human Blue Whale was shown in the central square of Lünen at the International Nature Photography festival in Germany, presented with a talk By Patricio´s Extinction Rituals.  

  • 2013 Patricio´s receives the Mentes Quo Award a tribute to the Mexican talent 

  • 2013 Patricio closes Agrupacion Sierra Madre, for tree main reasons, he doesn’t have partners anymore at Sierra Madre, he is depressed because of the environmental battles lost, and the future of the natural world, and he is frustrated with the limits of movement his body has after the accident in China, and the constant pain, for his injuries.

  • 2015 He produce, designed and writes, with his own photographs, a large format art book about jaguars, Las Onças Pintadas del Rio Cuiabá, The Onças Pintadas of the Cuiaba River. The forward was written by Dr Jane Goodall. The book presentations and exhibit were at the Patricia Conde Gallery in Mexico City. Patricio was his own publisher

  • 2015 Film and produces along with Jaime Rojo a short video El Golfo de California una de las Ultima’s Areas Silvestre’s de Mexico, A video seeing by millions about this marine sanctuary, the best region to sea Whales worldwide. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub7P4j5F9VY  

  • 2015-2024 he produces a sculpture call Cursing the Poachers a life-size in bronze, that he asks world conservationist, writers, artist to hand write in a small paper a course to the men that kill illegally the rhinos for profit. Patricio introduce the course in an empty cartridge of high-power rifle and drill a hole in the bronze skull to introduce the cartridge, more than 50, personalities like Dr Jane Goodall, Dr George Schaller, Dr Russ Mittermeier, Holland HRH Princes Laurentien, have participated.   

  • 2016 A second Photo Exhibit of the Onças Pintadas book, was presented at Dhalia Forum of the Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico UNAM, Botanical Garden. Mexico City

  • 2017 Patricio receives at the XXV anniversary of the CONABIO the recognition for his pioneering efforts to conserve Mexico's nature and his pioneering artistic expression of Mexico biota

  • 2018 Do the frustration over the tragic decline of the Vaquita Porpoise with only 30 surviving individuals left, Patricio convoke over 20 Museums, Universities and Galleries in Mexico and Internationally, to create altars and other manifestations to honor the Vaquita, one example was The Madrid Natural Science Museum that create his own altar. He was personally involved in the making of tree sculptures that were presented at the Museo Nacional de San Carlos, at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Tamayo y al Museo Nacional de Antropologia, and donate a Vaquita memorial sculpture to the Mexico City Universidad Iberoamericana. He invites other artist to work with galleries and universities to also honor the Vaquita. 

  • https://www.facebook.com/procesionvaquitamarina/videos/956250274549749/

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3IvBUbthIQ

  • https://www.wild.org/blog/honoring-the-vaquita/

  • 2019 Damned Chinisess Medicine a Extinction Rituals work, deals with the loss of large predators like tigers. a intervention of a large image of a captive tiger, questioning the use of animal body parts in Chinisess tradicional medicine.

  • 2020 the Extinction Rituals Los Milagritos, Little miracles, intervention of an old wooden relief of a African lion. Were Patricio molded 60 different species, all of them endangered by the IUCN Red List, an cast about 400 small animals in aluminum and nail them to the wooden relief.

  • 2020 Publish Wild Rituals Painted Bodies, a small art book about the Body Painting event that happened at WILD9 congress in 2009. Text by Federico Reyes Heroles and Photographs varios autors, presented at Patricia Conde Gallery. 

  • 2020 Patricio is invited as a guest for a life conversation with Art Wolfe and Parimal Deshpande, Earth Is Our Witness a program that broadcast exceptional photographers in social media.

  •  https://www.facebook.com/earthisourwitness/videos/3581332881992693/

  • 2020 First exhibition of THE EXTINCTION RITUALS, Patricia Conde Gallery 

  • https://www.razon.com.mx/cultura/patricio-robles-gil-protesta-artistica-crisis-ecologica-416286

  • https://twitter.com/gwcdmx/status/1335977372991021058?s=20

  • https://twitter.com/fundtelevisa/status/1334625489898573826?s=20 

  • https://ondamx.art/evento/patricio-robles-gil-t0g9hYAftoP7ZhUSIJCL

  • https://medioambiente.nexos.com.mx/?p=1541

  • https://www.jornada.com.mx/2021/01/31/capital/026a1cap?partner=rss

  • https://estepais.com/ambiente/biodiversidad/un-llamado-a-la-accion/

  • https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=720964555230534

  • https://www.facebook.com/NCCIberoamerica/videos/1102921750143102

  • https://medioambiente.nexos.com.mx/?cat=39

  • https://heraldodemexico.com.mx/cultura/2021/2/7/los-rituales-de-la-extincion-ultimo-trabajo-de-patricio-robles-gil-254369.html

  • 2021 Gone With the Wind Series, another work of the Extinction Rituals, where he presents the fragility of certain spices, using photographs of individuals like the last male northern white Rhino. Sudan.

  • 2022 he works form months in a project, call Fragmentation, where he intervenes 100 African antelope horns, of 30 different species, to created 100 sculptures, each one rolled with barbwire. They all stand high at the human eye level.

  • 2021-2024 Patricio travels to Sierra San Pedro Martir National Park in Baja California to learn first-hand the successful story of the return to Mexico of the California condor a species that was almost extinct, where his friends live Juan Vargas and Catalina Porras had achieved a viable population of this scavengers. This first trip was a turning point for Patricio, he understood the reasons why he and others fail to recovery endanger species. He was inspired again by Juan and Catalina´s hard work, passion, commitment, experience and the magnificence of the deep canyons and the ancient forest of the Sierra San Pedro Martir. from the first trip of the nine, he left the frustration behin and committed to helping Juan and Catalina to continue with their work. Create a website www.imbackbccondor.com Launch and adoptation campaign of the condors in Mexico. has taken a portrait of each of Baja California´s wild condors. Present a photographic exhibition of these portrait at Mexico City Museo de Historia Natural y Cultura Ambiental. The Foro del Mar de Cortez a regional meeting  invites Catalina Juan and Patricio to give a talk at the 2023 Forum, where 100 important buisnessmen meet to discuss the sustentability of the Gulf Region. Patricio edit a 45 minute video of their work with the condors. Their participation at this event was a sucsesful mainly because 18 condors where adopted during the two days of the meeting. Today 30 condors are allready adopted, this will reinforce an endowment fund for the future of the species.

2022 Patricio is invited to talk at the EarthX Dallas International Enviromental Festival.

Has been member of the folowing boards:

-Comision Nacional the las Areas Naturales Protegidas CONANP, 25 years, Mexico.

-Fondo de Vida Salvaje, ENDESU, Mexico. 

-Cougar Fund, USA.

-Fundacion Ecologica San Bernardino, USA.

-Cuenca los Ojos, USA.

-Corredor Biologico Mesoamericano, Mexico.

-Reforestamos México, Mexico.

-Fondo para la Educasion Ambiental, Mexico.

-The International Comity for the Recovery of the Vaquita CIRVA, Mexico. 

-The National Geographic magazine spanish edition.

-The Nature Best Magazine, USA.

-Este Pais magazine, where he is the coordinator of the environmental board, Mexico.

 

He had been invited to give talks in Mexico, USA, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Panama, Republica Dominicana, Venezuela and Colombiain. He had donated thousands of his books to libreries, schools, universities, museums an government agencies. 

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