Endangered Jaguar at Crux of New Border-Wall Fight

Unfortunately I suspect by the time these cases are decided in court too much of the wall will already be done. Of course there is a presidential election this year and there is a possibility the current administration will get voted out and the new administration will put a stop to it.
 
Arizona Docent said:
Unfortunately I suspect by the time these cases are decided in court too much of the wall will already be done. Of course there is a presidential election this year and there is a possibility the current administration will get voted out and the new administration will put a stop to it.
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The wall is not just an obstacle for jaguar, but pretty much a stealth wealth of other rare arid land wildlife. I will put all the efforts for instance to conserve Peninsular and Sonoran pronghorn to deep shame.

That border wall - for all intense purposes - is a grand folly, if nothing else ... anyways. But here, I purely look at it from a conservation ethics and rationale point of view. It is definitely not rocket science. The fragility of arid land and steppe ecosystems has been the very reason renowned institutions like Living Desert (as well as others) were established in the South Western and Central US.
 
birdsandbats said:
Just want to note there is also a discussion going on about this here: Grey Catbird - ZooChat
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Maybe, you are right (I did check just now) on the photo/media module and thanks for pointing out. However, the main news and chat thread section is way more prominent and visible to forumsters (I at least check these more often than I look at individual photography.

Perhaps it would be useful to copy in and paste the discourse on jaguar populations in NM, AZ and TX here? And I encourage those that replied to the photo\media thread to get engaged here too!

Having said that, I feel the move by Defenders of Wildlife and the other 2 NGO's is very timely as the impact on the jaguar and many other wildlife species as well as protected areas will be affected by the Border Wall.
 
Not updated since the election, which of course Trump lost (even if he doesn't think he did). The Biden administration did put an immediate halt to border wall construction. Here is a good article about two male jaguars that have been recently photographed on the USA side of the border. One is the first juvenile photographed since jaguars were first documented returning in 1996.
Cameras capture images of over 100 species along US-Mexico border (azcentral.com)
(edit - it's not the first article, which is related; you have to scroll down to the second article)
 
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