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Blue
Butterfly Release Planned For Palos Verdes This Weekend
Tomorrow
morning, Supervisor Don Knabe will join community leaders for the
release of endangered Palos Verdes blue butterflies into restored
coastal sage scrub habitat at Deane Dana Friendship Community
Regional Park and Nature Center (Friendship Park) in San Pedro.
The Palos Verdes blue butterfly is a small, colorful,
thumbnail-sized butterfly that was federally listed as endangered by
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 1980. The release of
endangered Palos Verdes blue butterflies at Deane Dana Friendship
Park is one component of ongoing multiple partnership efforts to
recover this endangered native species in southern California.
Recovery actions include the restoration of the butterfly’s habitat
by the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy at Friendship Park,
and captive-rearing at Defense Fuel Support Point San Pedro and The
Urban Wildlands Group and America’s Teaching Zoo at Moorpark
College.
Deane Dana Friendship Community Regional Park and Nature Center is
located at 1805 W. 9th Street, San Pedro, CA 90732. The event begins
at 8:30 a.m. and admission is free. In the event of rain, the
butterflies will not be released but will be available on display
inside the Nature Center.
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