@peccarynotpig.bsky.social
Desert rambler, writer, activist in the Arizona/Mexico borderlands @ Center for Biological Diversity
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialBREAKING: This morning masked federal agents from DHS entered private land in Lochiel, AZ to halt protesters from protecting the cottonwood tree-sit that has halted border wall construction for more than two months. The tree sit and the grandmother tree were destroyed. @biologicaldiversity.org
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialThe Center for Biological Diversity and Patagonia Area Resource Alliance sued the Trump administration today over its Sept. 2 approval of the expansion of South32’s massive Hermosa mine onto federal public lands in southern Arizona.
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@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialBREAKING: Armed and masked agents of the U.S. government have invaded the sovereign Tohono O'odham Nation.
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialBREAKING: We’ve documented significant clearing of protected desert land inside Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument near Quitobaquito Springs for the Trump admin’s second border wall that will run parallel to the existing 30-foot-tall wall. Read: sl1nk.com/jrbj7yv
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialThe historic border wall tree sit in southern Arizona just went binational with a tree sit in a second cottonwood, right on the international boundary, in Mexico. The tree sits block construction of a primary and secondary wall planned for the area. Read: patagoniaregionaltimes.org/border-wall-...
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialCheck out this new footage I found on one of my borderlands trail cameras of a jaguar roaming the wilds of southern AZ near a transnational wildlife movement corridor that is rapidly being closed by border wall construction. More here @biologicaldiversity.org: biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press...
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialJust me talking to a Mexican spotted owl in a remote canyon in southern Arizona. Only a few thousand of these owls exist in the wild. In 1993 @biologicaldiversity.org Diversity won ESA protections for the species, and later secured critical habitat.
@biologicaldiversity.orgReposted by @peccarynotpig.bsky.social“These magnificent cottonwoods survived centuries, nourishing wildlife through floods and drought, only to be bulldozed for the Trump admin’s disastrous #borderwall. The San Rafael Valley is one of the most biologically rich landscapes in North America."
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialFor more than 6 days now a tree sit in a cottonwood tree in the San Rafael Valley along the Arizona-Sonora border has halted construction of two parallel border walls.. This is the first-ever tree sit to halt border wall construction. Learn more @rally.forthevalley and @peccarrynotpig on IG.
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialA trail cam check on Monday revealed 3 clips of a beautiful male jaguar in a Sky Island south of Tucson, in the ancestral lands of the Tohono O'odham.
Jaguars’ northern range is being ripped apart by border wall, mining, groundwater depletion and climate-driven drought. @biologicaldiversity.org
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialHope you can make it to the launch of Borderlings, my new book of poetry, this Saturday, Oct. 18, 6:30-8. Reading at 7. Signed copies available at event.
If not, you can order a copy through ArtSpeak Press here: www.artspeakpress.com/shop/p/borde...
@peccarynotpig.bsky.social“…destruction of jaguar habitats amounts to a violation of the Constitutionally guaranteed First Amendment religious liberties of the Tohono O’odham communities.”
@peccarynotpig.bsky.social“…this resolution condemns the destruction, damage, and disruption of the natural habitat of jaguars on Tribal and federal lands that are aboriginal homelands of the O’odham; and contends that the…”
@peccarynotpig.bsky.social“…protect jaguar habitat, safeguard connectivity from border walls and reintroduce jaguars to their native range in the U.S. Southwest.”
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialThe San Xavier District of the Tohono O’odham Nation in Arizona has passed one of the most moving and powerful resolutions memorializing the role of the jaguar as a protector of the O’odham with deep cultural and spiritual ties. The resolution also calls on U.S. Fish and Wildlife to…”
@laikenjordahl.bsky.socialReposted by @peccarynotpig.bsky.socialThis interview with my dear colleague Russ McSpadden is a phenomenal roundup of our work to stop Trump's absurd and irreversibly destructive push to wall off Arizona's San Rafael Valley.
And if you're not already following @peccarynotpig.bsky.social, you should!
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialChasing a rainbow over the northernmost occupied jaguar habitat on the planet. Gotta love Arizona.
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialExcited to share this! Join us to celebrate the release of BORDERLINGS, the debut book of poems from environmental activist RUSS MCSPADDEN, Saturday October 18, 2025, 6:30pm doors, 7pm reading and book signing. Free & all-ages. Che's Lounge, 350 N. 4th Ave, Tucson Published by Artspeak Press.
@peccarynotpig.bsky.socialGreat talking with you for the podcast Jack!
@jackhumphrey.comReposted by @peccarynotpig.bsky.socialBiodiversity Battle in the Borderlands: I recently spoke with Russ McSpadden @peccarynotpig.bsky.social from @biologicaldiversity.org. Hear stories about Jaguars, Ocelots, Bears, a huge number of bird species, and what you can do to help protect them. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Ech...
