Yesterday the Biden administration announced that it will waive 26 laws that protect clean air, clean water, public lands, endangered wildlife and more to fast-track construction of the border wall through the fragile Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge and neighboring lands. Among many concerns, wall construction in this area will harm recovery plans for endangered ocelots, which depend on contiguous wildlife corridors of protected habitat along the Rio Grande. “Starr County is home to some of the most spectacular and biologically important habitat left in Texas and now bulldozers are preparing to rip right through it,” said Laiken Jordahl, the Center's Southwest conservation advocate. 📹 courtesy Conservation CATalyst #endangeredspecies #ocelot #riogranderiver