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This is the shot across the bow.  The politics and stonewalling are over.


http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news ... -2016.html

Robert

The situation with the Monarch is far more critical than most think it is.  It is very late.  We waited too long.  But at least CBD is putting some teeth into this.

Most Americans listened to Monsanto pushing its Round-Up.  Remember, "The only good weed is a dead weed".  And that included Milkweed!!   That ad still angers me today. 

WEEDS ARE WILDFLOWERS!  NATIVE INSECTS ARE DEPENDENT UPON NATIVE WILDFLOWERS.  ALL THE NATIVE SECONDARY CONSUMERS ARE DEPENDENT ON THE PRIMARY CONSUMERS....THE NATIVE INSECTS.  

I'll bet most were not thinking a thing about wildflowers or insects (which eat the native plants) when you were sitting watching these commercials.  

It is going to take tons of money to turn this around........if we can do at all.

That is one of the problems with letting things get this bad:  It takes huge amounts of money to gain them back.  Damaging the environment is always super costly down the road.

Here are a couple of excerpts from the above link:

“We’re at risk of losing an animal that’s as American as apple pie, and nothing short of Endangered Species Act protection will guarantee that we save the monarch.”

“The threats to the monarch are so large in scale that the butterfly needs the effective protection of the Endangered Species Act if we’re really serious about saving this amazing migrating wonder for future generations,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity.