Improving Texas’ ocelot population with wildlife crossings

PHARR, Texas (KXAN) — In order to protect Texas’ endangered population of ocelots, special wildlife corridors are currently being built along a major highway in South Texas to make sure the animals are able to travel to other areas without being hit by vehicles. In South Texas, approximately 95 percent of the habitat has been cleared.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the wildlife corridors are tracts of land or habitat that are linked and allow wildlife to travel from one