Trump’s new border wall will threaten wildlife in an area where few people pass

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1. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has invited private sector companies to bid for contracts to erect nearly 25 miles of barrier on the US-Mexico border, across the unwalled San Rafael Valley south of Tucson, Arizona, one of the most biodiverse regions in the US.

   Here, vast rolling grasslands stretch across high desert, hemmed in to the east and west by rugged, isolated mountain ranges known as sky islands because they rise abruptly and spectacularly out of the arid flatness.

   “This is a crucial wildlife corridor,” said Eamon Harrity, wildlife program manager for the Sky Island Alliance, a conservation non-profit, while driving along a dirt road towards the cottonwood tree-lined Santa Cruz River that flows towards Mexico.

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   “That [movement] won’t happen once the wall is complete,” he added of that stretch of the Arizona-Mexico border.

2. Great example of why environmental issues are also human rights issues

3. Without a wall, this will become a highway

4. The walls are not for people keeping out, but keeping them in. The next wall will be between Canada and the US, paid by Canada of course, like the wall between Mexico and the US. /s

5. womp womp

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