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In Detroit, the long-term fight for biodiversity is bearing fruit (and flowers, and birds, and butterflies…)

When invasive species and development overtake prairies, forests, and marshlands in the Detroit area, biodiversity is threatened. But conservation groups are fighting, project by project, to restore some of the region’s natural biodiversity. It’s an effort that requires constant vigilance and takes decades. “Without these projects, we are losing that habitat where these creatures exist,” […]