Border barriers threaten biodiversity in the Rio Grande Valley

The Texas Rio Grande Valley supports a thriving ecotourism industry, attracting birders and wildlife watchers from all over the world. Local communities, conservation groups and government agencies worked for decades to protect habitat in the Valley. More barriers on the border put all that work, and the wildlife, at risk. Read about it in The Revelator.

Walls versus Wildlife on the Border

In July, the federal government began unannounced preliminary work on more border wall in Texas, some of it on the grounds of the Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. Read more about how this threatens habitat and wildlife in my piece for Audubon News online.

Walled-off Wildlife

Barriers built along the US-Mexico border have profound effects on wildlife. I've wanted to cover this issue for a long time; I wrote a post for the New York Times Green Blog focusing on the Texas Rio Grande Valley area. Read it here.