Posted on 03/29/2017 2:44:15 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
President Trump’s proposed border wall has been hotly debated as a political, economic and human rights issue ever since it emerged as a signature part of his campaign platform. But it’s also a major conservation issue, wildlife biologist Jeff Corwin argues.
“The impact will be huge. It will be an environmental catastrophe,” Corwin told CBS News on Wednesday.
Corwin, a nature conservationist known for his television work on the cable network Animal Planet, is concerned that the wall will dramatically disrupt what has been “nature’s corridor through North and South America” for millions of years now.
At least 89 endangered or threatened species would be impacted by the border wall, according to information from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
The wall would cut through huge swaths of national parks, wildlife refuges, and pristine estuaries, Corwin said. Animals along the border could see their migration routes blocked, access to important resources curtailed, and water supplies cut off.
The affected animals would include such rare species as the jaguar, Mexican gray wolf, mountain lion, and whitetail deer. All these animals are on the cusp of disappearance to different degrees: the Mexican gray wolf, for instance, is the most endangered subspecies of wolf in the world, according to Defenders of Wildlife.
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BUILD THE WALL!
that’s no way to refer to Mexicans.
Like those solar arrays and giant windmills, right?
We just can't have the Mexican red winged snaildarter harmed.
same story when we wanted to drill for oil in alaska.
The sky never fell and the catastrophe never happened.
Wild life thrived.
Same story when we were drilling for oil in the gulf.
The sky never fell and the catastrophe never happened.
Fish life thrived.
LoL.
We all knew this was coming unless we live under a rock.
Let the whining begin.
Animals are incredibly adaptive.
Build the Wall.
I still have no idea what a pert is, and why there are some many people who gave it up.
Build the freakin wall bozos.
I got your wild life right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NXkM8PsPXs
Build the damn wall.
When they hit their dead number Obama just gave them an exemption for more dead
This will be the card they play with the courts..
Similar to the Delta Smelt, water wars in CA.
It is sort of cool that we have jaguar sightings in southern New Mexico from time to time, but we have to look out for our country first.
..especially the ones wearing sombreros
I was waiting for the snail-darter, yellow bellied tit warbler argument to surface.
Oh good grief. Anyone who drives the interstate knows that the superhighway is a disaster for wildlife. How is a wall worse than a six lane highway with concrete barriers going down the middle?
Ahhhh right! I live right on the border and I call this BULLCHIT!!
The only animals that would be in jeopardy would be the illegals..
Build the wall Donald! Do what you said you'd do! Who cares about the Delta Smelt or Snail Darter?
This is going to be the main weapon to stop the wall. Environment/courts. The environment is the left’s most insidious weapon.
GMAFB.
I wonder what they will come up with next.
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