To go with AFP story by Paula Ramon: US border wall stops rare wildlife
Laiken Jordahl, Southwest Conservation Advocate, makes a video in front of a section of the US-Mexico border wall in Sasabe, Arizona on December 8, 2023. Jaguars don't understand borders, but where the United States meets Mexico, they are having to adapt to them. Once the master of the plains of the Sonoran Desert, the animal is now struggling to survive in a landscape cut in two by a wall The barrier, which former US President Donald Trump boasted he would make "impenetrable" does little to discourage the thousands of people from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe who arrive every day. But, say conservationists, it is deadly to wildlife. (Photo by VALERIE MACON / AFP)