A Mexican jaguar walked into Arizona, then the US built a wall
Twenty-nine years ago cowboy Warner Glen took the first photograph of a jaguar that crossed from Mexico into Arizona. His surprising story opens our show. Today though, there is something very different happening on the border.
Chris and his producer Matt Martin follow two biologists, one from Mexico and one from the USA, as they track the biggest cats in the Americas along the border. Jaguars are expanding their range from Mexico into the United States but now there is something that is getting in their way: a 30-foot steel border wall that now snakes across the mountains between the two.
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A special thanks to the crew at Cuenca Los Ojos - Valerie Gordon, Jorge Chacon, and Anays Blanco for their help with this episode. Learn more about their work to preserve biodiversity in the borderlands.
THE WILD is a production of KUOW in Seattle in partnership with Chris Morgan Wildlife and Wildlife Media. It is produced by Matt Martin and Lucy Soucek, and edited by Jim Gates. It is hosted, produced and written by Chris Morgan. Fact checking by Apryle Craig. Our theme music is by Michael Parker.
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