Friday, March 30, 2018

Trump's border wall threatens Texas plants and wildlife

If it is ever built, the wall set to physically divide the nearly 2,000 mile border between the United States and Mexico poses a threat to vulnerable wildlife and plants as well as to the growing ecotourism industry in the border regions of Texas. Norma Fowler and Tim Keitt, scientists at the University of Texas Austin, have published a letter that outlines the potential ecological damage from such a major project. Currently, Texas has walls only along approximately 100 miles of its border with Mexico. "Up...

from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/trumps-border-wall-threatens-texas-plants-and-wildlife
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