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Friday Roundup: Good News! Mar 26

March 25, 2016by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Welcome Spring 2016: This week we are only reporting good news– eagles, ravens, monarch butterflies, orcas, the Chesapeake Bay, Amazon funding, World Happiness Report. Whoopee! World Happiness Report: Just released, […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Butterflies, Endangered species, forests, Friday Roundup, International, Oceans, People, Science, Sustainability, Wildlife
Passenger Pigeon painting by Walton Ford. Courtesy of the artist. The passenger pigeon went from billions to complete extinction in less than half a century.

Summer Reading: Birds, Butterflies, Bees

July 30, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

 Birds, butterflies and bees — what do they have in common ? This group of 20 books originally posted for Christmas 2014- resource guides, travelogues, memoirs and more — makes […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Books, Butterflies, Extinction, Farming, Food
A monarch perches on a sunflower in Lacreek National Wildlife Refuge in South Dakota. Courtesy Tom KoernerUSFWS

Monarchs: Save Them, Says NRDC

July 8, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is taking on Dow  Chemicals –– and Monsanto too– to stop  the toxic herbicides that threaten Monarch butterflies with extinction. A full-page ad in […]

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Butterflies, Endangered species, Extinction, Farming, Food, Toxics
Spirit of Place a book of photographs by Aurelien Villette (all rights reserved)

The summer season: coming up

June 16, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Summer –– even in your dreams—is a special time to read, roam, eat fresh picked, think about the past and make plans for the future. Here’s some of what we […]

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Books, Cities, Discovery, Food, Gardens, Photography, Sustainability, Travel, Urban life

Monarch Butterflies Imperiled: No Joke!

February 10, 2015by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The Washington Post calls it a “monarch massacre.”  One billion, now down to 30 million. Our beloved monarch butterflies are proof that very little separates an endangered  species from extinction.  […]

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Butterflies, Endangered species, Extinction, Natural history
Bumble Bee Courtesy of American Museum of Natural History, NYC

Gift Books 2014: Birds, Butterflies, Bees

December 1, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

 Birds, butterflies and bees — what do they have in common ? Assembling this group of 20 books as gifts or for personal reading– resource guides, travelogues, memoirs and more […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Books, Butterflies, Farming, Food
Monarch butterfly. Photo credit Armon Wikipedia Commons. CC BY-SA

Where are the butterflies?

August 26, 2014by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The buzz these days is, where have all the butterflies gone ? It may be too early for the traditional monarch butterfly migration, but depending upon where you live (I’m in […]

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Animals at risk, Climate change, Endangered species, Gardens
Monarch butterfly. Photo credit Armon Wikipedia Commons. CC BY-SA

Monarch Migration Is On! Update 10/1/2013

September 11, 2013by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

MONARCHS IN PERIL: Three scientists and naturalist sit in on the Diane Rehm Show (NPR) to discuss banding monarchs, migration, population declines and  steps to turn the situation around. Listen in […]

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Biodiversity, Butterflies, Conservation, Endangered species, Gardens

Monarchs on the Move

October 8, 2012by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

It’s that season. Monarch butterflies are leaving the upper reaches of their range in North America and heading south for over-wintering in high-altitude sanctuaries in Mexico’s Michoacan Mountains. Depending upon […]

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Biodiversity, Butterflies, Documentary films, Endangered species, Extinction

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