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The U.S.-Mexico border is a hotspot for biodiversity.

You have deserts, you have grasslands, you have mountain ranges.

Paul Erlich, an evolutionary biologist and ecologist at Stanford.

It is a borderland between the temperate zone and the tropics.

The border is also, if the Trump administration has its way, a future construction zone,

the site of an expanded wall, which Erlich and more than 2,500 scientists from around the world

say could threaten some 1,500 native plants and animals along the border, 62 of which are endangered. When you build barriers,

you first of all prevent organisms from migrating in response to the climate change we're causing,

and that leads to extinctions. We also divide populations, which then makes them smaller and more

susceptible to extinction. And of course, we destroy them directly by wrecking their habitat.

The species at risk include big horn sheep, gray wolves, pronghorn anelope, and jaguires.

Even low-flying creatures could be blocked by a 30-foot wall, he says,

like the ferruginous pygmy owl and the endangered checkerspot butterfly.

The butterflies pretty much won't fly over a five to ten foot bush.

They're organisms that are used to flying in grasslands, and they view forest or bushlands as barriers.

The article by Ehrlich, colleagues, and scientists signatories is in the journal Bioscience.

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