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    Unofficial Count Shows Hope for Western Monarchs

    Unofficial Count Shows Hope for Western Monarchs

    Last year, the number of western monarch butterflies wintering on the California coast reached a record low, alarming conservationists. But this year, unofficial counts show the iconic insects returning to their winter haunts by the hundreds and thousands. “We are overjoyed that migratory monarch butterflies have not disappeared from the western U.S.,” Xerces Society for […]

    Feral Horses Gallop to the Rescue of Butterflies in Distress

    Feral Horses Gallop to the Rescue of Butterflies in Distress

    By Nanticha Ocharoenchai In the Czech Republic, horses have become the knights in shining armor. A study published in the Journal for Nature Conservation suggests that returning feral horses to grasslands in Podyjí National Park could help boost the numbers of several threatened butterfly species. In 2017, wildlife organizations laid out their plan to introduce […]

    Border Wall Construction Imminent at Most Diverse Butterfly Center in U.S.

    Border Wall Construction Imminent at Most Diverse Butterfly Center in U.S.

    Construction equipment has arrived to build a border wall through the National Butterfly Center in Mission, Texas, a protected habitat for more than 200 species of wild butterflies and other unique wildlife. A planned 5.5 mile section of concrete and steel border wall that is already funded will cut off 70 percent of the 100-acre […]

    What Will It Take to Stop Trump From Bulldozing Most Diverse Butterfly Center for Border Wall Section Already Funded?

    What Will It Take to Stop Trump From Bulldozing Most Diverse Butterfly Center for Border Wall Section Already Funded?

    [facebook https://www.facebook.com/EcoWatch/videos/345706262651120/ expand=1] Bulldozers are expected to arrive at the National Butterfly Center in February or early March. A planned 5.5 mile section of concrete and steel border wall that is already funded will cut straight through the most diverse butterfly sanctuary in the U.S. Marianna Wright, executive director of the National Butterfly Center believes […]

    Climate Change Is Threatening Many Species, But One Is Getting a Boost

    Climate Change Is Threatening Many Species, But One Is Getting a Boost

    By Lucy Goodchild van Hilten A towering elm tree stands 30 meters (approximately 98 feet) tall, somewhere near the border between England and Scotland, defying the fate that so many of its cousins met when Dutch elm disease ravaged the species in the 1970s. One of relatively few elm trees left, it is a haven […]