Logan's+Rescuing+Rare+Butterflies

=St. Francis Satyr= Logan McCollum 3A

The speakers at the Teen Science Cafe spoke about butterflies. In particular, they spoke about the St. Francis Satyr butterfly. This butterfly is only native to an area in Fayetteville North Carolina. It was first found in the landing zones for the artillery shells they were testing at FT. Bragg. This led to the researchers learning that this butterfly needs a home that is open, not in a forest. They then talked about the reasons that this butterfly became endangered. The main reason they gave was habitat loss. At Ft. Bragg they now used techniques such as controlled burns and controlled flooding to create the environments this butterfly needs to live and grow in numbers. The researchers now go in and collect the population numbers of butterflies

Without the researchers and the organizations, they are a part of this amazing species of butterfly would have become extinct due to habitat loss. Habitat loss is one of the leading causes of extinction in the world, thus making the conservation efforts a main focus in environmental science. In order to protect ecosystems and the environment as a whole we need to take a stand and do our best to stop habitat loss so we cant prevent species from becoming endangered and eventually extinct.