Bryan Bird, Southwest Program Director for Defenders of Wildlife, talks about the current situation with the Border Wall at the Mexican border. Bryan Bird directs Defenders’ efforts to protect imperiled wildlife and their habitats across Arizona, New Mexico and Texas. Bryan has over 20 years of experience protecting and restoring public lands while preserving wilderness and biodiversity across the Southwest and northern Mexico. Bryan has worked to restore Mexican gray wolves in the Greater Gila Bio-region of New Mexico and Arizona for over a decade. He has published reports on western wildfire policy and beaver restoration as a tool for climate adaptation. Bryan holds a M.S. in Biology from New Mexico State University and a B.S. in Biology, from the University of Colorado, Boulder.