https://www.gofundme.com/protect-the-national-butterfly-center

The legal fund has so far raised $82,381 of $100,000 goal

I want to help!

Ocelots are in that area and are near extinction.

This is what the wall will do to the NATIONAL sanctuary:

1) Eradicate an enormous amount of native habitat, including host plants for butterflies, breeding and feeding areas for wildlife, and lands set aside for conservation of endangered and threatened species-- including avian species that migrate N/S through this area or over-winter, here, in the tip of the Central US Flyway.

2) Create devastating flooding to all property up to 2 miles behind the wall, on the banks of the mighty Rio Grande River, here.

3) Reduce viable range land for wildlife foraging and mating. This will result in greater competition for resources and a smaller gene pool for healthy species reproduction. Genetic "bottlenecks" can exacerbate blight and disease.

IN ADDITION:

4) Not all birds can fly over the wall, nor will all butterfly species. For example, the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, found on the southern border from Texas to Arizona, only flies about 6 ft in the air. It cannot overcome a 30 ft vertical wall of concrete and steel.

5) Nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife, which rely on sunset and sunrise cues to regulate vital activity, will be negatively affected by night time flood lighting of the "control zone" the DHS CBP will establish along the wall and new secondary drag roads. The expansion of these areas to vehicular traffic will increase wildlife roadkill.

6) Animals trapped north of the wall will face similar competition for resources, cut off from native habitat in the conservation corridor and from water in the Rio Grande River and adjacent resacas. HUMANS, here, will also be cut off from our only source of fresh water, in this irrigated desert.

https://democraticunderground.com/100211813201

This wall madness must be stopped.

I am angry about their ignorance about the natural world, but also infuriated by the civil rights violations that they incur every day. They. need. to. be. stopped. and. soon!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/17/i-voted-trump-now-his-wall-may-destroy-my-butterfly-paradise/

He's such a bastard!!!!

This has been in the works for awhile and needs to receive more exposure!
The rebukes have a wonderful ally in trump to destroy everything.

is help organizations like Sierra Club with their fights for environmental and wildlife protection.

See here (on borders):

Borderlands
Link: https://www.sierraclub.org/borderlands

And, on Twitter:

Sierra Club Borderlands
@SC_Borderlands
Link: https://twitter.com/SC_Borderlands

A post from Feb. 7th:

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And they have some cool tote bags, backpacks, etc. for contributors — but they’re well worth supporting with or without the goodies.

I must confess I haven't been followed their work closely in years, until I was looking for info relating to this OP.

So, I'm grateful to DU for leading me to refresh myself on Sierra's current work!.......

Same here -- with so much going on, it's hard to keep track of every front in the Right's all-out war on everything we hold dear (including the planet we live on!!).

Quotes:
"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread."
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view."
"May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
“A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.”

The Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 explicitly gives the government that power.

.... maximum anger, sadness, and a sense of hopelessness among the people (like DUers)
that Stephen Miller sees as their enemies. aka liberals/environmentalists/educated people
This is calculated meanness.

If such wall is built along the border of where New Mexico, Arizona, and Mexico come together
it will all but doom the N. American Jaguar which is very endangered.

1. Eminent Domsin is Constitutional
United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry., 160 U.S. 668, 679 (1896)
The Fifth Ammendment requires payment of compensation

2. The Federal Government long has exercised Eminent Domain to deploy fencing at the sothern border.



https://www.texastribune.org/2017/12/14/border-land-grab-government-abused-power-seize-property-fence/

Bad enough for the environmental impact, but what's with gov't invading and destroying parts of the Sanctuary?

I was contesting this - ‘The court action argues that the federal government’s property grab violates the Constitution’

Other than garnering publicity, this is a waste of money IMO.

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