2015 Wildlife Action Plan Addendum Proposal hostas and other native and non-native landscapes! Unfortunately, they don't seem fond of multi-flora rose! So, I urge you to add the Addendum 2 Plant SGCN to the 2015 Wildlife Action Plan. We need to not only conserve and protect wildlife habitats and the plants therein, but we need to look forward to improving them, with better maintenance practices in our ROW's and programs by the DOT and public utilities to promote the preferred landscapes. Thank you.
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Plants can live without us but we can't live without them.
5/19/2022 10:38 AM
This is a great action and long overdue!
5/18/2022 11:27 PM
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Please try to get the word out the to general public about the NC Wildlife Action Plan. I care about the topic deeply, and belong to groups such as NC Native Plant Society, and Piedmont Land Conservancy, but only heard about it last week in an email newsletter from NC Audubon. Plants represent and support a large proportion of the state’s total biodiversity. Insects (which renowned biologist E. O. Wilson called “the little things that run the world”) sustain the earth’s ecosystems by sustaining the plants and animals that run those ecosystems. 90% of insects can complete their life cycle only on the native plants they evolved with. To continue to have a functioning ecosystem, it is imperative that the state include plants most in need of conservation in the plan. Conserving plants conserves ecosystems and all the insects, birds and fauna that live there. The Wildlife Action Plan’s goal is to keep common species common. Historically, this goal has applied only to animals. The time has come to include our native North Carolina plants in the list of species in greatest need of conservation in order to protect them before they become endangered, threatened, or of special concern. Helping conserve plants also helps us to conserve birds and other species. Native plants are a major component of the earth’s ecosystems, and they play a crucial role in sustaining the animals that are part of those ecosystems. It only makes sense to include in the plan the plants that wildlife depend
5/17/2022 11:35 AM
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5/14/2022 12:13 PM
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Plants represent and support a large proportion of the state’s total biodiversity. Insects (which renowned biologist E. O. Wilson called “the little things that run the world”) sustain the earth’s ecosystems by sustaining the plants and animals that run those ecosystems. 90% of insects can complete their life cycle only on the native plants they evolved with. To continue to have a functioning ecosystem, it is imperative that the state include plants most in need of conservation in the plan. Conserving plants conserves ecosystems and all the insects, birds and fauna that live there. The Wildlife Action Plan’s goal is to keep common species common. Historically, this goal has applied only to animals. The time has come to include our native North Carolina plants in the list of species in greatest need of conservation in order to protect them before they become endangered, threatened, or of special concern. Helping conserve plants also helps us to conserve birds and other species. Native plants are a major component of the earth’s ecosystems, and they play a crucial role in sustaining the animals that are part of those ecosystems. It only makes sense to include in the plan the plants that wildlife depend
5/14/2022 11:05 AM
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As we lose native plants, we lose the insects and then the birds that depend on them.
5/13/2022 1:37 PM
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With our high level of plant diversity in NC, we should be eager to protect those plants to North Carolina’s Species of Greatest Conservation Need (SGCN).
5/13/2022 11:24 AM
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Why hasn't this been done sooner?
5/13/2022 10:58 AM
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Plants represent and support a large proportion of the state’s total biodiversity. Insects (which renowned biologist E. O. Wilson called “the little things that run the world”) sustain the earth’s ecosystems by sustaining the plants and animals that run those ecosystems. 90% of insects can complete their life cycle only on the native plants they evolved with. To continue to have a functioning ecosystem, it is imperative that the state include plants most in need of conservation in the plan. Conserving plants conserves ecosystems and all the insects, birds and fauna that live there. The Wildlife Action Plan’s goal is to keep common species common. Historically, this goal has applied only to animals. The time has come to include our native North Carolina plants in the list of species in greatest need of conservation in order to protect them before they become endangered, threatened, or of special concern. Helping conserve plants also helps us to conserve birds and other species. Native plants are a major component of the earth’s ecosystems, and they play a crucial role in sustaining the animals that are part of those ecosystems. It only makes sense to include in the plan the plants that wildlife depend
5/13/2022 8:18 AM
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on. Please help us save these important species to help sustain our planet!
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