This update  gives me some hope...  News from the Defenders of Wildlife

 In early 2009, the International League of Conservation Photographers plans to send a team of world-renowned photographers, with writers, filmmakers, and scientists to the borderlands of the United States and Mexico to document the wildlife, ecology, and effect of immigration and the border wall on this landscape. This region is a shared conservation treasure of international importance that harbors some of the most biodiverse landscapes on the continent. Many species here are found nowhere else in the US, and nowhere else in Mexico and some are found nowhere else on Earth.

This map, courtesy of Defenders of Wildlife, shows some of the critical wildlife corridors that are being disrupted by the construction of 670 miles of wall along the US-Mexico border. For more information on this issue, please go to Defenders website.

 The borderlands of the United States and Mexico harbor a hidden gem. These remote wildlands that stretch from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico across the belly of North America provide safe haven for many wild species of plant and animals. Because much of the landscape around this international border has remained isolated for so long, many relatively intact and continentally rare ecosystems endure here—including Arizona’s last free flowing river, the San Pedro; some of the last undeveloped grasslands on the continent in the Janos/Hidalgo area along the New Mexico border; the single most diverse birding area in the United States along the Lower Rio Grande river, and habitat and migration corridors for some of both nation’s most imperiled species including the jaguar, Sonoran pronghorn, ocelot, bighorn sheep and Mexican gray wolves.

The more people  understand  the consequences of building this wall the better our chances will be of  finding a different  solution to the real problem and stop this devestation of our wildlife and our lands that are essentential to us all .

Another good way to find out more about this:

Refuge Watch

And my related posts:

 Border Wall disasterous for Wildlife September 22, 2008 (with Videos)

 Border Fence june 8-2007

 Breaking the law to Build the wall "a historic travesty" july 14-2007

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