habitat loss – Health4earth

The Painted Lady

Each one of us needs to work to create the world we want to live in. I want a world of clean air, and clean water. I want a world of healthy birds, healthy butterflies and healthy people.

The sighting of the first butterfly is always exciting. Have you seen one yet?

Below is a beautiful essay on the Painted Lady butterfly. Like all birds butterflies and bees these butterflies are stressed by climate change, loss of habitat, and harmful chemicals. The theme of the essay is that these are very resilient butterflies that have been able to adapt for their survival. Unlike the Monarch butterfly Painted Ladies don’t need just a few flower species to lay their eggs, they adapt!

I have planted habitat in my yard for Painted Lady caterpillars.

Painted Lady

Painted Lady love pussy toes.

These pearly everlasting plants have eggs from the painted lady.

On this Earth Day, do everything you can to help these beautiful butterflies survive. Plant native plants in your yard, never use chemicals on your plants, avoid single-use plastic, and everyday work for clean air!

What are you doing Today for the Future?

PROTECT RESTORE FUND!

Greta is an awesome spokesperson for the world, and she has a global audience. I focus locally. What can each of us do to make a difference? So instead of getting depressed, make an effort everyday to help the Earth: Take public transport, buy less, reduce plastic use and food waste, plant native plants and native trees, and reduce the amount of meat you eat. Each one of us can make a big difference!

And the letter from scientists to the world. “Mankind is still facing the existential threat of runaway consumption of limited resources by a rapidly growing population,” they warned. And “scientists, media influencers and lay citizens” aren’t doing enough to fight against it, If the world doesn’t act soon, there will be catastrophic biodiversity loss and untold amounts of human misery,” they wrote. Read the full report by thousands of scientists here.

More on amazing trees: https://www.treepeople.org/tree-benefits

Views of a Warming World

Below are two excellent articles from Audubon

I too am worried about the future of our birds, butterflies bees, and all of us! I have noticed a big decline in the hummingbirds and butterflies in the last 4 years.

http://climate.audubon.org/article/12-views-warming-world

http://climate.audubon.org/article/face-new-climate-movement