2015 Wildlife Action Plan Addendum Proposal
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Preserving and protecting native plant species is a crucial element in the efforts to protect wildlife. Native plants provide food, shelter and beauty in a changing and challenging environment, as well as playing a crucial role in agriculture. Please pass these changes to the Plan. Plants are our greatest source of biodiversity, and native plants the most crucial for ecosystem health.
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Absolutely necessary to sustain fragile wildlife environments
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I support the changes in the Wildlife Action plan through the inclusion of Plants 3.15, addendum 2. Plants are essential to creating a diverse habitat for wildlife/insects and face continuous threats due to factors related to habitat modification, development, encroachment of invasives and more. I find it vastly important to fund and support efforts related to plant conservation and preservation. Plants are key elements of the state's biodiversity, critical to the maintenance of wildlife populations, and deserving of conservation protection measures.
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4/22/2022 3:28 PM
Plants will be destroyed with all the new construction.
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Plants are an essential part of our states biodiversity. They should absolutely be included in our action plan and should receive the same benefits for conservation action
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I believe that plants are foundational members of every ecosystem and should be protected at levels similar to the state's fauna. I support because it is equally important to protect our native plant species. In order to support out native fauna, we must also conserve our native flora as fauna depends on flora to survive. Protecting the state's wildlife is largely contingent on protecting plant biodiversity as it plays a monumental role in providing animal habitat, food, energy transfer mechanism, and possibly medicine to wildlife. Leaving this critical ecosystem member out of the plan would be a huge mistake.
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Plants are vital to ecosystem health and deserve to be protected to benefit all.
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100% in support of adding all of the listed plants. Long overdue, but also inspiring that these changes are even under consideration, I wish that my home state (MS) and others were not so far behind. Our southeastern hotspot for vascular plant biodiversity and endemism seems poised to become an extinction hotspot. Lack of recognition of rare plants under formal designations like SGCN and state endangered and threatened species lists is as much a cause as lack of funding. The addendum would be a great step forward for North Carolina and I can only hope other states will follow suit. Plant species and plant communities are integral to the continuance of wildlife. The habitat in which rare and common plants provide for rare, threatened, and endangered wildlife species is entirely dependent upon plant conservation. While many wildlife action plans have focused on a more top-down approach (wildlife, then plants), it will be revolutionary to place a higher value on plants and plant communities, and place them at the foundation of wildlife and habitat conservation. Without plant habitat, wildlife conservation would not be possible. In particular, rare plants have consistently received a disproportionate level of funding compared to wildlife. In fact, federal funding for animal species often outweighs plant species funding by a ratio of 4:1. Please implement plants into the wildlife action plan to ensure their conservation, which will have clear indirect (positive) consequences for wildlife. I believe plants should be included in the Wildlife Action Plan, as management of diverse and endangered plant species is imperative to maintaining a functioning ecosystem Plants are foundational members of ecosystems and communities and should be protected at levels similar to the state's fauna. Plants are important and should be included in the new wildlife action plan for the state. Why aren't plants already included? Plants are drivers of diversity, provide energy to ecosystems, and uptake carbon. They need to be protected on levels equal to that of the state fauna.
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I can't imagine why plants haven't already been included, but they are an essential part of the
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