The US-Mexico Wall, it’s Borderlands, Wildlife, and People

Take a look at a 38 picture slide show demonstrating the environmental impact of the US/Mexico Border wall.


In 2005, the Department of Homeland Security was granted the authority to waive environmental laws to speed the building of a barrier between the U.S. and Mexico.

Under this waiver, more then 500 miles of wall and fence have been constructed through mostly rural and wilderness areas.

In January 2009, the International League of Conservation Photographers sent a team of world-renowned photographers, with writers, filmmakers and scientists to the borderlands of the United States and Mexico to document the wildlife, ecology, and effect of immigration and the border wall on this landscape. [38 Pictures]