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EPN Signature Earth Day Event: Take Flight!

Wed, 4/21/2021 - 6:00pm to 7:15pm

The Environmental Professionals Network (EPN) at The Ohio State University is partnering with TEDxOhioStateUniversitySalon and Monarch Joint Venture, for their annual signature Earth Day celebration on April 21, 2021. Take Flight! is an Earth Day celebration of local and global efforts to protect and restore the monarch butterfly. The monarch butterfly is an icon of our planet’s biodiversity. Take Flight! is an Earth Day story uniting the shared journeys of the monarch butterfly and our cross-boundary conservation efforts from Ohio to Mexico, including through traditional lands of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and other Tribal Nations. While Its population in Ohio and globally borders on extinction,this program will focus on solutions to restore monarch habitat and give tangible resources for all to contribute, including landscape planning by public and private landowners. Join this program on the eve of the 51st Earth Day to acknowledge and celebrate local and global efforts underfoot to protect the monarch butterfly.  

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