Trump Administration’s Disregard for Wildlife and Culture Spreads Across North America

The Trump regime's roughshod ride over the environment is having consequences that affect more than just the United States. The border is just a line and wildlife, water, and air move across it freely, at least until walls are built. Pollution moves across it too, and the destruction of migratory habitat in one country affects the environment, wildlife, and culture of those living in another. 

This long article by a Canadian conservation scientist explains some of the consequences of the environmental disasters being caused by the Trump regime. 

At both its borders, the U.S. is eroding common causes and seems intent on defiling its neighbors. From the sensitive natural habitats and Native burial, spiritual, and other sites that the border wall is destroying, to sanctioning drilling in the Porcupine caribou calving grounds which the Gwich’in call “the sacred place where life begins,” these acts impudently erode cultural and natural resources all three countries share. Conservation diplomacy is dying.

Lawsuits over the Mexico-U.S. border wall are now joined by lawsuits over the Arctic, the latter of which the organization I work for has signed onto. As a conservation scientist who’s researched large mammals and now works for an organization in the Yukon intent on protecting wilderness landscapes, I’ve come to understand that our conservation goals cannot simply stop at national boundaries and must respect the Indigenous groups who for centuries have managed the land in a sustainable way and depend on it to this day.