http://blog.nwf.org/2011/08/feeling-blue-florida-butterfly-flutters-on-the-edge-of-extinction/ The National Wildlife Federation's blog Sun, 26 May 2013 02:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.nwf.org/2011/08/feeling-blue-florida-butterfly-flutters-on-the-edge-of-extinction/comment-page-1/#comment-11038 Holly Fri, 12 Aug 2011 20:18:00 +0000 http://blog.nwf.org/wildlifepromise/?p=29203#comment-11038 News about the listing is great; however, I hope it’s not too late. The state of Florida gave the Miami Blue butterfly emergency endangered status on its own species list in December 2002. The FWS could have done the same back then. I believe an environmental group even planned to sue the FWS in 2005 to have the butterfly listed. There was a captive breeding program going on, with caterpillars being placed around Everglades and Biscayne National Parks, but I don’t know what came out of that effort.

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