CATALINA FOOTHILLS, Ariz. (KGUN) — Students at Ventana Elementary School are combating the risk of extinction for pollinators in the Sonoran Desert by building a vibrant garden on their campus.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says there are fewer places now than before for pollinators like bees and butterflies to feed and breed. To bring pollinators back, students in Denisse Peña’s fourth grade class transformed an empty plot of land in the middle of campus into a garden full of plants and painted rocks.
“Can we turn this into something beautiful?” Javier Colon-Hernandez said.
“Plants are what gives us food, life and oxygen,” Colon-Hernandez said…