With a long coastline and an international border, Texas is a hotbed of wildlife trafficking. “It’s all driven by money,” a major in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department said.
Nova is a four-year-old clouded leopard with round ears and a dappled coat. In January, when she went missing from her enclosure at the Dallas Zoo, officials reassured the public that she was unlikely to be a danger to anything bigger than a squirrel. “Thinking like a cat, she likely went straight up to the trees and has not come down,” Harrison Edell, an executive vice-president at the zoo, said at a press conference.
With a long coastline and an international border, Texas is a hotbed of wildlife trafficking. “It’s all driven by money. At the end of the day, there’s a commodity that somebody wants somewhere,” Brent Satsky, a major in the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, told me. In his special-operations work in the department, Satsky said, he has seen many species trafficked. “All kinds of reptiles—I mean, like reticulated pythons, Burmese pythons, alligators, snapping turtles,” he said.
Arguably, the most prominent non-native species in the state are the ones living on Texas ranches. The practice started nearly a century ago, on the King Ranch, an enormous property so iconic that Ford named a premium version of its S.U.V.s and pickup trucks for it. In 1930, the San Diego Zoo supplied the ranch with a herd of nilgai, long-necked antelopes native to India and Pakistan. The semitropical climate suited them, and, absent natural predators, the population boomed.
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