Tell the Senate: Keep Environmental Protections Along our National Borders
Wildlife could suffer if these unnecessary border security measures are enacted.
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Morning is over
and noon slouches on
Your stripes could all fade
in the poisonous day
When you see the sunlight
move out of the way
You prance with the beasts
who parade every night
And silently slouch
through the forest by light
Don’t be the only one left on the block
Come hide in the herd
and float with the flock
Ocelot! Ocelot!
Where are you now?
You never listen to me anyhow
You wandered and ambled
you walked, now you run
Knowing you’ll bake
like a snake in the sun
You prance with the beasts
you parade every night
And silently slouch
through the forest twilight
Don’t be the only one left on the block
Come hide in the heard
and float with the flock
You prance with the beasts
you parade every night
And silently slouch
through the forest twilight
Don’t be the only one left on the block
Come hide in the heard
and float with the flock
Ocelot! Ocelot!
Where have you gone?
(Won’t you come out to play?)
Ocelot! Ocelot!
Where have you gone?
(Won’t you come out to play?)
Ocelot! Ocelot!
Where have you gone?
(Won’t you come out to play?)
The wildlife that inhabit and migrate across our nation’s southern border continue to face constant threats.
Now the Senate Judiciary Committee is considering provisions in the current immigration bill that would expand authority for the Department of Homeland Security to ignore environmental protections when building various types of security infrastructure through sensitive wildlife habitat.
TAKE ACTION NOW: Tell your senator to oppose unnecessary and risky anti-environmental provisions in S. 744.
Provisions in this bill also call for the construction of additional border walls, that will damage and sever crucial and sensitive wildlife habitat.
Border security forces already have extensive authority to ignore conservation laws in their operations. These new provisions would add nothing to border security, but will almost certainly harm to the ecology of the region.
If these provisions are approved:
- Wildlife migration corridors will be blocked;
- Erosion and fragmentation will render wild habitat unsuitable for a host of animals;
- Water and air pollution may get worse, affecting wildlife and people.
These measures could impact important wildlife habitats and public lands along the border, including Coronado National Forest and San Bernardino National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona, and Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge in Texas.
Species like the jaguar, ocelot, jaguarondi and other cross-border wildlife could find their paths blocked and their homes cut into fragments by newly-constructed walls, fences and roads that cut them off from others of their kind.
Please tell your senator to oppose these harmful and unnecessary provisions, and protect our borderland wildlife.
Visit the Sustainable Action Network.
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