[Oldeconomybuyer]

[Pravious]

The $300 million-a-year ecotourism industry in South Texas — a top birding destination — is bracing for the arrival of border wall construction crews in mid-February.

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Yeah. Because billions of people love to go down there and avoid the rapists and drug smugglers to watch birds.

[DesertRhino]

But rape trees, and cartel members all over the place, and your pickup truck getting broken into if you leave it unattended doesn’t discourage tourists at all, right?

[JudyinCanada]

Tough toenails for nature tourism. Protecting the country is more important.

[Don Corleone]

Sameo Sameo here in southern Az.

[dougherty]

Too damn bad. Build the wall.

[FlingWingFlyer]

One of the benefits of doing a lot of recreational drugs is you can easily make up wild stories like this. A lot of clowns doing “nature tourism” in South Texas have either been kidnapped or are dead. This is a crock.

[TADSLOS]

"It is the most diverse habitat in the entire country," said Tiffany Kersten, a biologist and a board member of Friends of the Wildlife Corridor.

Uh Huh...Diversity.

[Rebelbase]

How does a 30’ wall stop birds from migrating?

[Chainmail]

“Nature tourism” - Big whoop! National Security before miniscule hobbies.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

The habitat also sustains the most diverse insect population in the country

After construction you will only be bitten by 5,000 species of nasty bugs, not 6,000. It's a huge loss, I tell you.

They are really grasping at straws now.

[Doogle]

....all of a sudden

[Political Junkie Too]

Wow! That must be SOME wall if it can keep even the birds out!

-PJ

[central_va]

Another my dog at my homework so we can’t build a wall story.

[Buckeye McFrog]

It's OK. Tourists like walls.

[Beagle8U]

“Along with the national wildlife refuges, the region is home to the National Butterfly Center and several state and county parks, all of which bring in tourists.”

No way will butterflies be able to get over the wall./sarc

[no-to-illegals]

Hey I want me one of them walls. These geese make too much poop 💩

[Leep]

Jyst keep the illegal birds out.

[central_va]

We estimate that hundreds of thousands of birds and bats die every year when they accidentally collide with turbine blades9, 17, 25, 26. Fragile-bodied bats can even succumb to the pressures created when the giant turbine blades pass through the air, a phenomenon known as barotrauma10.

Wind Energy And Birds FAQ — Part 1: Understanding The Threats

[Bishop_Malachi]

Border wall threatens nature tourism industry in South Texas

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NOOOO! For the love of Christ, NOOOO! /s

[tet68]

The organization opposes the wall’s construction as a threat to the group’s mission of supporting the national wildlife refuges and their “protection of native and migratory wildlife species that depend on the native habitat.”

One can only note that they oppose the wall’s construction
NOT on the grounds that it will harm wildlife and it’s
habitat. NO, they oppose it as a threat to THEIR mission.

Wouldn’t want that gravy train to dry up.