, Emily Burns watched in dismay as construction crews graded new roads and blasted off mountaintops, hustling to finish the new border wall in southern Arizona before Donald Trump left office. Burns is the program director at the Sky Island Alliance, an environmental nonprofit focused on the mountains of southeastern Arizona and northeastern Sonora, Mexico. Each new wall section threatens the habitat connectivity that the region’s wildlife — from jaguars to pronghorns — needs to thrive. “It was really painful
Borderlands wildlife treads a narrowing path
Nov 01, 2022
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