Animals in the wild roam free in order to live, eat, and drink.
And they need to roam free in order to survive.
Some countries like Canada prioritize maintaining wildlife populations where there are roadblocks, say highways, and build the animals bridges. And others like today's America creates a border wall at the Mexican American line that negatively impacts bison, longhorn sheep, and antelopes' ability to roam.
Many respected individuals document how the wall isn't working in regard to its goal, and in regard to a flourishing environment.
Last year G2 Gallery in Venice, California showcased photographs of animals and ecology negatively impacted by the wall. Check out the photos at Art for Conservation: The Borderlands and to see what other conservation photographers are up to now click here.
Back to our our border:
According to Glenn Hurowitz, a Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy, the Obama Administration has continued Bush's border-wall construction with little regard for whether or not the wall works well in keeping illegal immigrants away, or for its environmental impact.
In anticipation of Obama's speech today in El Paso, Texas about immigration, Hurowitz wrote a Grist article that includes a video of 2 American girls scaling the border wall in 17.5 seconds.
Hurowitz points out that Obama will speak near the 640 mile long border wall with Mexico; a wall hurting ecology and wildlife. To get more educated on the subject read Hurowitz's Grist article and see video here.
Above photos are from my 2008 trip to Jasper, Canada.
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