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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat 'the wall' will do to the National Butterfly Sanctuary...
National Butterfly Sanctuary (100 acres) is at risk of being bulldozed by Trump's wall.www.nationalbutterflycenter.org
This is what the wall will do to the NATIONAL sanctuary:
1) Eradicate an enormous amount of native habitat, including host plants for butterflies, breeding and feeding areas for wildlife, and lands set aside for conservation of endangered and threatened species-- including avian species that migrate N/S through this area or over-winter, here, in the tip of the Central US Flyway.
2) Create devastating flooding to all property up to 2 miles behind the wall, on the banks of the mighty Rio Grande River, here.
3) Reduce viable range land for wildlife foraging and mating. This will result in greater competition for resources and a smaller gene pool for healthy species reproduction. Genetic "bottlenecks" can exacerbate blight and disease.
IN ADDITION:
4) Not all birds can fly over the wall, nor will all butterfly species. For example, the Ferruginous Pygmy Owl, found on the southern border from Texas to Arizona, only flies about 6 ft in the air. It cannot overcome a 30 ft vertical wall of concrete and steel.
5) Nocturnal and crepuscular wildlife, which rely on sunset and sunrise cues to regulate vital activity, will be negatively affected by night time flood lighting of the "control zone" the DHS CBP will establish along the wall and new secondary drag roads. The expansion of these areas to vehicular traffic will increase wildlife roadkill.
6) Animals trapped north of the wall will face similar competition for resources, cut off from native habitat in the conservation corridor and from water in the Rio Grande River and adjacent resacas. HUMANS, here, will also be cut off from our only source of fresh water, in this irrigated desert.
This link is to a PDF. (I don't know how to upload it to DU. If someone can that would be great.)
https://www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/images/What_the_Border_Wall_will_do_here_.pdf
Go Fund Me - help protect the sanctuary.
https://www.gofundme.com/protect-the-national-butterfly-center
The sanctuary is at risk of being bulldozed for Trumps wall.
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/429192-texas-butterfly-sanctuary-to-file-emergency-restraining-order
Cha
(297,574 posts)I, like millions of peeps, love our butterflies and their sanctuaries!
I've visited ones in Canada, Georgia, and Hawaii.
Best of Luck to the National Sanctuary.. Mahalo, mysteryowl
yardwork
(61,700 posts)Cha
(297,574 posts)The first butterfly pic I searched I couldn't c/p it.. it was blue. So I tried again and this pink one was accommodating.
yardwork
(61,700 posts)Cha
(297,574 posts)pic today! I saw one earlier on the bus in my neck of the woods but it wasn't nearly as bright and full arc as the Rainbow in his neighborhood!
Good Evening to You!
yardwork
(61,700 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,456 posts)mysteryowl
(7,396 posts)Demit
(11,238 posts)This is habitat destruction and there is at least one FB group that won't allow posts on this b/c it is "controversial." You would think it wouldn't be controversial at all
mysteryowl
(7,396 posts)That !#$&*%!!! wall !
Demit
(11,238 posts)It was a Swallowtail Butterflies group. She might have deleted the whole group since I can't find it in the list of FB butterfly groups. Maybe she herself sympathized with the Trump administration or maybe she just didn't want the hassle of patrolling posts about the topic. Maybe she just wanted sunny, happy, oh-look-at-this-pretty-butterfly posts. I don't know. Very sad state of affairs.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)He says one bulldozer going through there is less damaging to the sanctuary than a bunch of people tramping through it. I'm not kidding!
mysteryowl
(7,396 posts)FirstLight
(13,362 posts)..when I actually get my SDI, I will pay it forward!!!
mysteryowl
(7,396 posts)Bayard
(22,128 posts)that is beneficial to our lives, tRump will stomp on it. Its everything he is not.
spanone
(135,866 posts)JudyM
(29,270 posts)The butterfly center is in TX, this gofundme is a butterfly organization in NJ with no actual commitment to hand all the $ over to the the one at risk in TX. The actual Butterfly Center has its own *direct* donation page:
https://www.nationalbutterflycenter.org/support-nbc/donate-now
jpak
(41,758 posts)This is vile and vicious trump bullshit.
Yup