The Sky Island Alliance s wildlife camera network has captured two jaguar sightings in the Whetstone Mountains – one in May 2023 and another in November 2023.
Efforts to rush parts of President Donald Trump s border wall in his final days in office are doomed and in some places have actually harmed border security, according to campaigners.
Witnesses to the work in Arizona told Insider that mountainous parts of the border were easier to reach now than when Trump took power four years ago, as the process involved building new roads over rough terrain.
This is a small portion of the whole border, hundreds of miles of which have been fortified.
But sources told Insider that they d seen a resulting increase in crossings in these weak spots, which were previously too inhospitable to be much of a security concern.
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Blown-up mountains and toppled cactus, damage from border wall December 21, 2020 9:22 AM CDT By Anita Snow
With Mexico to the right, crews stand in a pathway cleared by explosives to make way for border wall construction, Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2020, in Guadalupe Canyon, Ariz. Construction of the border wall, mostly in government owned wildlife refuges and Indigenous territory, has led to environmental damage and the scarring of unique desert and mountain landscapes that conservationists fear could be irreversible. Matt York | AP
Associated Press
Newly erected border wall separating Mexico, left, and the U.S., cuts through the Sonoran Desert just west of the San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge on Wednesday. Previous Next
Sunday, December 20, 2020 1:00 am
Environmental damage created by wall
Many hoping it can be reversed if building halted
ANITA SNOW | Associated Press
GUADALUPE CANYON, Ariz. – Work crews ignite dynamite blasts in the remote and rugged southeast corner of Arizona, forever reshaping the landscape as they pulverize mountaintops in a rush to build more of President Donald Trump s border wall before his term ends next month.
Each blast in Guadalupe Canyon releases puffs of dust as workers level land to make way for 30-foot-tall steel columns near the New Mexico line. Heavy machines crawl over roads gouged into rocky slopes while one tap-tap-taps open holes for posts on U.S. Bureau of Land Management property.