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Last month, our research team released the footage of a jaguar we detected just three miles from the borderlands between Mexico and the United States. The juvenile male jaguar could be one of the first jaguars in this region that will face the border wall. Researchers, advocates and members of the general public who are excited to have jaguars again in the United States should not forget why it is important to have jaguars roaming in the borderlands.
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How recent jaguar sightings give experts hope for species recovery on both sides of the Arizona-Mexico border
The endangered cat may slowly be recovering in the borderlands, but the Trump border wall may hurt that progress.
Anton L. Delgado, Ian James and Erin Stone, Arizona Republic
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4:55 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021
The endangered cat may slowly be recovering in the borderlands, but the Trump border wall may hurt that progress.
Anton L. Delgado, Ian James and Erin Stone, Arizona Republic
Published
4:55 pm UTC Apr. 15, 2021
Deer, javelinas and a black bear filled the screen as Ganesh Marin scrolled through hundreds of photos taken by one of the trail cameras used for his borderlands wildlife study.
Credit Russ McSpadden, Center for Biological Diversity.
Commentary: The borderland region surrounding the US-Mexico border, an area of rich natural and cultural diversity, is in desperate need of federal investment given widespread environmental and social damage caused by the single-minded focus on wall construction, say Bruce Babbitt and Sally Jewell, both former Secretaries of the Interior. The two have forwarded recommendations from community leaders and conservation groups in the border states urging President Biden to reopen strategic sections of the wall to allow for wildlife migration and repair lands and waters damaged during the wall’s construction. They propose a job corps to train and employ residents of impoverished border communities to restore the environment and rebuild a sustainable economy. Their letter, signed by 26 regional conservation leaders who are working cooperatively on both sides of the border, advocates for a binational, community-based effort to repa