Ocelots in danger?

HARLINGEN — The development of liquefied natural gas plants along an ocelot corridor could set back decades of work in the struggle to save the endangered species.

Opponents of a proposal to build an LNG plant in the wildlife corridor argue federal findings contradict a researcher’s statements discounting the area as an ocelot habitat.

For 40 years, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service even leased the proposed LNG site as a wildlife corridor to help the United States’ fading ocelot population survive, said Stefanie Herweck, spokeswoman for the group Save RGV from LNG.

“The proposed LNG leases are on really significant ocelot habitat,” Herweck said yesterday. “That corridor is critical for the long-term survival of the ocelot in Texas.”

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