ABikerSailor
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Animals are pretty resourceful, they'll figure out what to do sans the entire range of their "domains." Wolves typically have a pack range size of between 50 and 200 square miles, so I would guess that we're at best looking at intersecting maybe 10 jaguar and wolf ranges, presuming human infestation they won't be there, we've already heard of the scattering of cities and farms that are supposedly being cut in half and/or purchased - wolves/jags are unlikely to be hanging out in those locations either (they're typically not fond to compete with humans for their hunting and not to keen to hang out around humans who have a habit of shooting them.)
The wolves might loose a couple packs but the jags have much larger ranges and tend to be a bit more agile (no doubt in my mind they could easily get over the fence so it might actually /help/ them as it'll downsize the wolves share of the prey. Wolves won't be going extinct either way, Alaska's got a very healthy population of the beauties. I think we've got over 10k up here. We have cougars and lynx also, but no jaguars and idk what their population is in Mexico (more of their typical range falls south of the border) - I can't say what the long term would be on them but I suspect the impact is negligible.
Honestly, to me this silly story comes off like if the state of AK were to tell us home owners we can't put a fence up because of the animals - unrealistic and not much of an argument.
You know, I kinda agree with you, yes, animals are remarkably adaptable and after an initial getting used to it period, they would adapt and be able to live.
I'm more worried about the landowners on the border who have had their properties cut in half by current walls, and part of their property while on American soil because it's on this side of the river, is still on the Mexican side of the border wall.
And some of those people who are going to lose part of their property because of the wall were Trump supporters who are now having second thoughts.