Trump’s border wall construction threatens survival of jaguars in the US
by Samuel Gilbert in the Coronado national forest, Ar from Environment | The Guardian on (#5B2MC)
Wall is going up in four sections in Arizona's mountain ranges spanning the US-Mexico border where the cats had reappeared
By the 1960s, the North American jaguar had vanished from the southern US borderland after being hunted to extinction.
Yet in the mid-1990s, there was a remarkable discovery: the jaguar had reappeared in the Sky Islands of Arizona, a region of rugged linked mountain ranges spanning the US and Mexico border that boasts the highest biodiversity in inland North America. Since then, the large cats have been seen over a dozen times in the region, reviving hopes of a full return of the elusive predators to the US.
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