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Heartbreaking Butterfly Center Video Shows Bobcat At Risk From Border Wall

Heartbreaking Butterfly Center Video Shows Bobcat At Risk From Border Wall

The National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas is not only a sanctuary to some 200 species of butterflies, it’s also a home for the area’s other unique wildlife. With border wall construction imminent, the center posted a two-minute video featuring a bobcat living in the facility’s southern 70 acres that will be cut off by […]

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    A Literal Wall Expert Explains Why Trump’s Wall Won’t Even Work

    A Literal Wall Expert Explains Why Trump’s Wall Won’t Even Work

    President Donald Trump‘s unrelenting bid to build a wall on the southern border has not only held up much of the federal government for 24 days and counting, its construction could be devastating to the environment and local wildlife. Now, in a epic Facebook post shared more than 100,000 times, an actual structural and civil […]

    Joshua Tree National Park Will Stay Open After All

    Joshua Tree National Park Will Stay Open After All

    Joshua Tree National Park will not shut its gates after all as it works to recover from the effects of the ongoing government shutdown, the park announced Wednesday. “By immediately utilizing revenue generated by recreation fees, National Park Service officials have been able to avert a temporary closure of Joshua Tree National Park that had […]

    Joshua Tree Closes Temporarily to Repair Damage Caused During Shutdown

    Joshua Tree Closes Temporarily to Repair Damage Caused During Shutdown

    The government shutdown, now well into its third week, has taken a major toll on many iconic national parks, which have remained open to the public but severely understaffed. Now that toll is forcing one of them—Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California—to temporarily close its gates. “Joshua Tree National Park will temporarily close effective […]

    As Shutdown Drags on, National Parks Will Use Entrance Fees to Take Out Trash

    As Shutdown Drags on, National Parks Will Use Entrance Fees to Take Out Trash

    As the government shutdown continues into a third week, the Interior Department has made the controversial and unprecedented decision to use visitor fees collected at national parks to help deal with the maintenance and safety issues that have emerged as iconic public lands remained open but understaffed when the government failed to pass a budget […]

    EPA Runs Out of Funds as Government Shutdown Drags On

    EPA Runs Out of Funds as Government Shutdown Drags On

    The partial government shutdown that began nearly a week ago is likely to drag into the New Year, CNN reported Friday. The House and Senate both met only briefly on Thursday and made no progress towards resolving the impasse between congressional Democrats and President Donald Trump over $5 billion in spending for his proposed border […]

    How the Government Shutdown Could Impact the Nation’s Environment

    How the Government Shutdown Could Impact the Nation’s Environment

    A partial government shutdown continued for a third day Monday as legislators left the capital for the holidays, CNBC reported Monday. The shutdown is due to an impasse between President Donald Trump and Congress over $5 billion in funding for Trump’s border wall, a construction project that would have devastating consequences for wildlife in the […]

    What Will It Take to Stop Trump From Bulldozing Most Diverse Butterfly Center for Border Wall Section Already Funded?

    What Will It Take to Stop Trump From Bulldozing Most Diverse Butterfly Center for Border Wall Section Already Funded?

    [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/345706262651120/ expand=1] Bulldozers are expected to arrive at the National Butterfly Center in February or early March. A planned 5.5 mile section of concrete and steel border wall that is already funded will cut straight through the most diverse butterfly sanctuary in the U.S. Marianna Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center believes […]