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For Immediate Release, January 30, 2024
Contact: Erick Meza, (520) 403-4325, erick.meza@sierraclub.org
Borderlands Large and Small Wildlife Openings Provide Some Needed Connectivity for Animals
(Tucson, AZ) The recent news of new jaguar sightings in southern Arizona have generated a lot of conversations about the potential recovery of this emblematic and extremely rare species of the southern Arizona borderlands. The biggest barrier for this species to recover besides illegal hunting and habitat loss is an actual physical barrier, the presence of the border wall. It is no coincidence that the sightings of jaguars have happened in an area that remains unwalled as they come from Mexico. This is the same area where former Governor Doug Ducey installed his shipping containers.
Erick Meza, the coordinator of the Sierra Club Borderlands program said, “Wildlife in the borderlands just need an opportunity to move and connect to thrive, but we continue to deny it with the construction of more barriers, increased militarization, and the pushing of asylum seekers to remote areas of the desert.”
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