'The American - Mexican wall' threatens wildlife

Nearly 3,000 scientists voiced their objection to the 'American-Mexican Wall' project, because according to scientific warnings, the life of more than 1,000 animals will be seriously threatened if the border wall that General Donald Trump proposed to become a reality.

According to the article published in BioScience, the small population of symbolic animals like the big horned sheep, Mexican gray wolf and Sonoran branched hornbill will be cut off by the wall. American jaguars and Ocelot brocade cats are species that face extinction completely in the United States when the habitat area is cut off by the wall.

A letter signed by nearly 3,000 scientists worldwide, led by Professor Robert Peters from Defenders of Wildlife - a conservation group. This letter explains in detail the threats to biodiversity along the US border - Mexico is up to 2,000 miles long, where President Trump is seeking to erect a large wall to block the flow of illegal immigrants.

The border wall will be a threat to biodiversity along the US-Mexico border.

The content of the letter stated: ' Walls and fences built over the past decade with the efforts of President Trump in completing a border wall of great threat to one of the multi-level areas. Highest biological form on the continent.

Currently completed walls are cutting down on area, quality and connectivity in the habitat of plants and animals as well as affecting more than a century of bilateral investment in conservation of the two countries; Politics and media often overlook or misrepresent harms to biological diversity; When populations of organisms are divided, they will be more difficult to find partners, food, water and a safe living environment, thereby facing the risk of extinction many times higher than reality and leave behind implications for future generations. '

Stanford University biology professor Paul Ehrlich said: 'Building and maintaining the wall infrastructure is a crime that causes biodiversity on the whole continent.'

The letter called on the US government to identify organisms that would be affected by the wall and design as many barriers to allow wild animals as possible, and invest in buying or restoring habitats instead. So for animals if the environmental damage is inevitable.

The US-Mexico border area is home to more than 1,000 species of animals and over 400 species of plants. Of these, 62 species are in the area of ​​near extinction, are at risk of extinction and are easily extinct, according to the list of the International Union for Nature Conservation.