Water & Wildlife

Trump’s border wall tore a vicious scar through some of the most biodiverse regions on the continent, bulldozing habitat for endangered species, draining aquifers, and cutting of critical migratory corridors for wildlife.

To mix concrete for the wall, the Department of Homeland Security extracted hundreds of millions of gallons of groundwater from fragile desert aquifers, which will take thousands of years to regenerate. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Scientists warned last year that the extraction of groundwater posed a “dire emergency” to wildlife, calling water pumping for the wall “the greatest threat to endangered species in the southwest region.”