Ocelots, Butterflies in Path of Border Wall
(WorldNews Mexico)

When rains pushed the Rio Grande River to flood stage in 2010, an existing border wall acted as a flood barrier, protecting some lowlands but also trapping some animals. A 2011 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service report obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by the Sierra Club noted the discovery after the flooding of shells from “hundreds� of Texas tortoise, which that state lists as a threatened species. “Animals caught between the river and the flood wall that could not escape around the edges of the floodwalls likely perished,� said the report. Endangered species like the ocelot and jaguarundi, both small wildcats, also might have died, according to...