TUCSON, Ariz. (13 News) - Local organizations and animal advocacy groups have expressed concern over how border wall construction would impact wildlife in our borderlands, but research from the University of Arizona gives some hope.

Over the last 15 years, the Wild Cats Research and Conservation Center at the University of Arizona has gathered hundreds of detections of four jaguars in mountain regions just south of Tucson. Their most recent jaguar detection was last week.

Susan Malusa, who leads the Jaguar and Ocelot Monitoring Project, has devoted years into looking at jaguar populations specifically on the United States side of the border.

Jaguars are incredibly rare to spot, and the predators play a valuable role in the ecosystem near the border. “(The ecosystem) has to be well-bal

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