Post by revirdsuba99 on Feb 12, 2019 14:45:50 GMT
Followup to the thread about seeing the Monarch butterflies in large numbers.
Butterfly sanctuary asks for restraining order to block wall construction
BY ARIS FOLLEY - 02/12/19 08:09 AM EST
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“We will not stand idly by as the bulldozers roll in,” Marianna Treviño-Wright, the executive director of the butterfly center, said in a statement to the Observer. “We will not wait to be heard, until sometime after our land has been seized and destroyed for this racist wall.”
Treviño-Wright also alleged in an affidavit filed on Saturday that a member of the refuge discovered the center’s “lock and chain had been cut off the gate and replaced with a [Customs and Border Protection] lock, which prevented our employees and visitors from accessing the majority of the Butterfly Center.”
The Trump administration is reportedly waiving nearly 30 environment laws to build a wall at the site.
Funding approved by Congress in last year's federal budget will reportedly cover the expenses for 33 miles in the Rio Grande Valley, including a stretch of the barrier that is expected to cut off 70 of the butterfly habitat's 100 acres.
The wall will also reportedly cut off the butterfly center’s entrance gates.
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thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/429545-butterfly-sanctuary-files-restraining-against-feds-over-border-wall
Of course butterflies are not the only species that are endangered. Butterflies probably could fly over the wall/through the fence, but what about the animals who are not able to fly and those who will not be able to get through the 'fence'.
They do have a Gofundme page........
Butterfly sanctuary asks for restraining order to block wall construction
BY ARIS FOLLEY - 02/12/19 08:09 AM EST
**
“We will not stand idly by as the bulldozers roll in,” Marianna Treviño-Wright, the executive director of the butterfly center, said in a statement to the Observer. “We will not wait to be heard, until sometime after our land has been seized and destroyed for this racist wall.”
Treviño-Wright also alleged in an affidavit filed on Saturday that a member of the refuge discovered the center’s “lock and chain had been cut off the gate and replaced with a [Customs and Border Protection] lock, which prevented our employees and visitors from accessing the majority of the Butterfly Center.”
The Trump administration is reportedly waiving nearly 30 environment laws to build a wall at the site.
Funding approved by Congress in last year's federal budget will reportedly cover the expenses for 33 miles in the Rio Grande Valley, including a stretch of the barrier that is expected to cut off 70 of the butterfly habitat's 100 acres.
The wall will also reportedly cut off the butterfly center’s entrance gates.
**
thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/429545-butterfly-sanctuary-files-restraining-against-feds-over-border-wall
Of course butterflies are not the only species that are endangered. Butterflies probably could fly over the wall/through the fence, but what about the animals who are not able to fly and those who will not be able to get through the 'fence'.
They do have a Gofundme page........
