An endangered butterfly, toad, and Mexican shrub may stand in the way of Trump's border wall in 2018.

Four environmental nonprofits - the Sierra Club, Defenders of Wildlife, the Animal Legal Defense Fund, and the Center for Biological Diversity - have filed suit against the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) over wildlife concerns and the proposed barrier.

The lawsuit, filed in late November, argues that the border wall would threaten more than a dozen endangered species in southern California and northern Mexico, including the Arroyo toad, the Quino checkerspot butterfly, the peninsular bighorn sheep, and the Mexican flannel bush.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-wall-lawsuit-environmental-concerns-2017-12

Posted on December 20, 2017 05:04 PM by biohexx1