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Monarch butterflies rebounding but population still well off highs
Saturday, February 27, 2016 JON HERSKOVITZ FOR REUTERS
By Jon Herskovitz
AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) – North America’s monarch butterflies are on a rebound and the number of the plucky orange and black creatures, which gather in Mexico before flying north to Canada, could soon stand at around 150 million, a new survey showed on Friday.
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Monarch butterflies rebounding but population still well off highs
Saturday, February 27, 2016 JON HERSKOVITZ FOR REUTERS
By Jon Herskovitz
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OXFORD LAGOON BIRD SANCTUARY, MARINA DEL REY, CA
Part 1 - Osprey & Monarchs Habitat at Oxford Destroyed
https://youtu.be/tRlZ90AmWTY
Part 2 - Oxford Lagoon Bird Sanctuary – Resident POV
https://youtu.be/QBY5v9MmpQc
The presentation slide show on Ballona Wetlands Preservation and Restoration made to the California Coastal Commission at the June 2013 hearing. See the wide variety of animals currently living in the Ballona Wetlands.
Ballona Wetlands - Activists want Public Participation in the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve Restoration as promised in the Bond Dollar Agreements
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In 1954 U.S. Congress Document 389 created Marina del Rey from 950 acres of Ballona Wetlands. To compensate for the loss of marshlands (bird habitat) they promised:
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Ballona Lower Wetlands in 1952. Notice Lincoln Blvd is a levee road surrounded on both sites by water.
When a developer uses the word "restoration" do you think they mean the wetlands state before Marina Del Rey Harbor was built in 1954? Or does the developer mean bulldoze current animal homes, and replant a careful, artful designed and manicured modern native plant selection, and hope the animals come back? Suitable as a tourist attraction and for hotel guests to gaze upon from their hi-rise rental rooms?
