Border Wall Saguaro Deaths
Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security bulldozed thousands of saguaros to build up the border wall. The agency tried to save face by transplanting a few of them, but many of those transplants were already dead six months later.
Saguaros are very slow-growing cacti, reaching only about 1.5 inches within their first 10 years of life, and they don’t blossom till they’re about 7 to 8 feet tall. That means some of the bulldozed cacti were over a century old.
Please take a moment to share this video showing the tragic fate of these once-mighty desert sentinels.
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https://fronterasdesk.org/content/187...
This video was featured in our Endangered Earth newsletter, issue 1,236 (March. 14, 2024): https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/p...
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