12 Oct 2018

Forest Ecologist and NWF monarch specialist to appear at Butterflies w/o Borders Forum

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Forest ecologist and National Wildlife Federation Monarch Outreach Coordinator Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñòn will trek from Austin to San Antonio October 19 to participate as a panelist in Butterflies without Borders: the Monarch Migration and our Changing Climate. The event will be presented … Read More
9 Oct 2018

Award-winning journalist and author to talk pesticides at Butterflies w/o Borders Forum

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For Carey Gillam, it all started in Kansas City in 1998 with farmers, an herbicide, genetically modified crops, and the agriculture giant that created them: Monsanto. Author and investigative journalist Gillam had been working for financial wire services Thomson Financial … Read More
2 Oct 2018

Litigant in Trump border wall dispute to speak at Butterflies without Borders forum

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Never in a million years could Marianna Treviño Wright imagine herself center stage in a lawsuit against the federal government. But that’s where the executive director of the National Butterfly Center (NBC) finds herself today. Treviño-Wright was conducting her normal … Read More
25 Apr 2018

Five monarch butterflies tagged and released at San Antonio Festival made it to Mexico

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Five out of 720 commercially reared monarch butterflies tagged and released at our 2017 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival in San Antonio were recovered in Mexico, citizen science organization Monarch Watch announced this week. The five tags constitute 0.54% of … Read More

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