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Victory for Jaguars and Other Border Wildlife
When Senator Jim DeMint (SC) proposed an amendment to complete 700 miles of expensive, ineffective and damaging walls along the southern U.S. border, Defenders leapt into action to protect the jaguar and other imperiled wildlife threatened by the amendment.
More than 7,500 key wildlife activists heeded our call to action, and in October of 2009, Senator DeMint’s ill-conceived amendment to the spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security was eliminated.
Working with a diverse coalition of conservation, human rights, religious, community and taxpayer watchdog organizations, Defenders of Wildlife continues to fight to protect our ecologically sensitive borderlands – and the rare jaguars, bighorn sheep, ocelot, pygmy owls, flat-tail horned lizards, desert tortoise and other wildlife that rely on intact cross-border habitats for their survival.
For more information
- Learn more about our work to protect wildlife in the southern U.S. borderlands.
- Help support our work – Adopt a Jaguar!
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