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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Nina Lakhani

More than 100 wild animals trapped by border wall killed in Texas wildfire

A fire truck makes its way up a levee on 11 August 2023 in Texas where a wildfire consumed approximately 1,000 acres the day before.
A fire truck makes its way up a levee on 11 August 2023 in Texas where a wildfire consumed approximately 1,000 acres the day before. Photograph: Courtesy Delcia Lopez / The Monitor

More than a 100 wild animals including frogs, shrews and snakes were killed in a wildfire in Texas last summer, after becoming trapped behind the concrete border wall.

Internal US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) memos obtained by an environmental group reveal that government scientists found scores of burned animals against a mile-long stretch of the border wall last August, after a wildfire in the Lower Rio Grande Valley national wildlife refuge, a federally protected area.

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