A border wall could drive the jaguar extinct in America
A border wall could drive the jaguar extinct in America
THE JAGUAR DOESN'T NEED AN AMERICAN HABITAT TO SURVIVE. BUT WHAT WOULD THE BORDER LANDSCAPE LOSE IF ITS BIGGEST CAT WENT EXTINCT IN THE UNITED STATES?
Brandon Loomis, The Republic | azcentral.com
SAHUARIPA, Mexico — Somewhere in the remote crags of the Sierra Madre Occidental of eastern Sonora, a female jaguar stalks a Mexican deer or a band of tree-climbing coatis.
She could be the one.
Her stomach and nose could lead her north a few dozen frontier miles to join one of the solitary males that have skulked the southern Arizona mountains in recent years.
Biologists and wildlife advocates think jaguars could pair off north of the border someday, if Americans leave the trail open and if a female follows it.
More:
https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona-environment/2017/11/21/border-wall-could-drive-jaguar-extinct-america/480883001/
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https://www.democraticunderground.com/1127113896
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