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  • "Lights Out" Project Aims to Spare Migratory Birds

    Natalie van Hoose|Updated Sep 25, 2021

    GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Each fall, millions of migratory birds fly over Florida under the cover of night, hightailing it south for the winter. Many never reach their destination. Disoriented by the lights and glass of cityscapes, thousands of birds die after colliding into buildings and windows. To prevent these deaths, cities across the U.S. are hosting "Lights Out" campaigns that encourage building managers and residents to reduce light pollution during birds' spring and fall...

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    Endangered Florida Butterfly Comes Back From the Brink of Extinction

    Natalie Van Hoose|Updated Sep 22, 2021

    GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- For the past nine years, volunteers working with the Florida Museum of Natural Historyand the Florida Park Service have trekked diligently through forest preserves on Key Largo in search of the federally endangered Schaus' swallowtail butterfly, more often than not coming back with more mosquito bites than butterfly sightings. Things seemed especially grim when, in 2012, observers were only able to find four adults, setting in motion a large-scale...