we are going to build the wall it will be a real war a real war
are you ready are you ready
this is the Rio Grande that is Mexico that is the United States Texas and that
is Mother Nature's wall it's pretty great the Rio Grande starts at Colorado
flows through New Mexico and becomes the us-mexico border when it enters Texas a
border wall already exists along the river in urban areas as for the rest it
is some of the most inhospitable terrain in the southwest
on both sides of the border there are national parks state parks wildlife
areas and historic ranches that go back for centuries
this region is like the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem of the Chihuahua
desert and the last true wilderness left in the state of Texas desert bighorn
sheep went extinct in this region but they've been reintroduced and once again
battle for breeding rights along both sides of the Rio Grande
the physical border wall would block them from the Rio Grande the only
reliable water source along with everything else that depends on the
river for water for survival black bears were also killed out west
texas then about 25 years ago a female came out of the Malins in mexico cross
the Rio Grande and had Cubs a Big Bend National Park
the Bears are back now about 40 of them the border wall would isolate them
genetically and prohibit future dispersals for them and other important
species
I wish that everybody who wanted to build an actual physical wall could come
and see this place first because I think if they came saw it and realized what
the wall was going through and what it would do it would have a profound impact
on their way to think it
the Chihuahuan Desert has landscapes and an array of life that rivals Yellowstone
whose Sydney in the Serengeti
but it's rewilding efforts the research and the conservation work here has just
begun in the center it's the Rio Grande River
a border for us but the heartbeat for this ecosystem a
flowing changing desert oasis the lifeline during drought
we're gonna build the wall folks we're gonna build that wall will go up so fast
your head will spin and you'll say you know he meant it
you
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