Under the Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security bulldozed thousands of saguaros to build up the border wall. The agency tried to save face by transplanting a few of them, but many of those transplants were already dead six months later.
Saguaros are very slow-growing cacti, reaching only about 1.5 inches within their first 10 years of life, and they don’t blossom till they’re about 7 to 8 feet tall. That means some of the bulldozed cacti were over a century old.
Please take a moment to share this video showing the tragic fate of these once-mighty desert sentinels.
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This video was featured in our Endangered Earth newsletter, issue 1,236 (March. 14, 2024): [ Ссылка ]
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