Monarch Butterflies now Listed : Endangered
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Check out the 20 foot carp in Chernobyl ... nature repairs itself in time if left alone !
Meanwhile my property has easily 10x as many frogs and toads this year than any of the previous I can recall. Go figure.
Wow that's crazy!!! The day my dad past ( a little over a year ago) my wife and daughters and I saw the most beautiful huge monarch ever. Now whenever we see one we say (look grandpa is here) and we see one at least once a week.
My first wife loved red spotted purples. When I see one now I tell it how much I miss her.
when I was really little we got tons of those. Like it would look Autumnal because the trees had so much orange, then some fool cut the milkweed. We still got them but not like that. People are a shitty animal sometimes.Sad news.?
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Migratory Monarch Butterflies Are Listed as an Endangered Species
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, the iconic North American butterfly is getting closer to extinctionwww.smithsonianmag.com
It is very sad. I inadvertently destroyed some monarch caterpillars on my dill plants and feel bad about it. We should all make it a point to plant things like milkweed to help support the remaining monarchs out there.
People planting the wrong type of milkweed in the wrong areas is one of the significant causes in the decline of their migratory populations. Specifically, people planting tropical milkweed along the gulf coast in "butterfly gardens" is problematic.
Well I'm sure but I generally buy all my plants for a nursery which only sells native species.
And who is going to be willing to eat it.
We use to hunt at a place called Weldon Springs in Missouri. After WW2, yellow cake was processed and stored in vaults in and around the area. Traces of the site can still be seen. My dad would take deer shot in the area to the processor who often enough would reject them. Why, they were loaded with cancer. Needless to say, we found better places to hunt. And it had been over a half century since the yellow cake was first processed there.
Blows my mind how people can't be bothered to care about things like this, or can't be bothered to understand the significance, or even bothered to attempt to understand why this is important and sad.
There are a number of serious environmental problems but they're mostly either being ignored or further exacerbated in favor of focusing on the fake and corrupt pseudoscience of "climate change from carbon emissions"... and the psychotic agenda behind it.
It might actual blow my mind that it doesn't blow my mind how people can't be bothered...
we've evolved to live in a world that is very different then the one we've made.
We've edged in the realm of politics. IBTL
I add that, while there are a million causes and concerns, I try to restrict my interests to only those I can fix on my own or a couple of friends/helpers. Just not enough time in the day to fret over everything. And, I certainly can't digest all the conflicting scientific "studies" kicking around.
The Carolina Parakeet used to live in huge flocks in the Carolinas and was magnificently painted by Audubon. I'm sorry to say, he often killed the birds to better be able to paint them, but I think mostly that was one bird. The usual attribution of their extinction is the millinery trade, that is hat makers using the feathers on hats. This affected many bird populations. Whether it accounts for such a populous species disappearing completely, or whether it had more to do with expanded farming in their habitat, for example, remains unanswerable.
The red wolf was a prime hunter's trophy in the 1940's throughout the West. One full-time hunter and fisherman in East Texas would bag wolves nearly every outing. When they disappeared in East Texas, he explained this saying they had migrated further north. Actually, they are nearing extinction, with most animals in zoos, and about 50 in the wild, getting shot from time to time. Probably there isn't enough of a populations to sustain itself genetically.
The red wolf was a prime hunter's trophy in the 1940's throughout the West. One full-time hunter and fisherman in East Texas would bag wolves nearly every outing. When they disappeared in East Texas, he explained this saying they had migrated further north. Actually, they are nearing extinction, with most animals in zoos, and about 50 in the wild, getting shot from time to time. Probably there isn't enough of a populations to sustain itself genetically.
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