A Tri-State environmental organization is undertaking a large-scale effort to increase habitat for butterflies, bees and more. The Ohio River Foundation is launching the 1,000 Acres Pollinator Habitat Project, which it says is the “largest pollinator habitat project ever in the Tri-State region.”
The project aims to create or restore more than a thousand acres of native habitat that will attract — and support — important pollinator species.
“Monarch butterflies, rusty patched bumble bees and other pollinators are in decline,” Rich Cogen, executive director of the Ohio River Foundation, tells WVXU. “Whether they are recognized by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as being an endangered species or not, pollinators are having difficulty due to loss of habitat, herbicide, pesticide, you name it.”…