{"id":456,"date":"2015-05-14T15:01:57","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2015-05-14T15:16:13","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:16:13","slug":"extinct-butterflies-arent-necessarily-gone-a-true-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterkreutzer.com\/blog\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"Extinct Butterflies Aren’t Necessarily Gone. A True Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screenshot<\/a>Some years back I wrote and directed the Audubon VideoGuide to Butterflies Common and Endangered<\/a> with Jim Ebner, who shot most of the footage. We worked with Paul Opler<\/a>, who wrote the Peterson Field Guides to Butterflies and The Complete Book of North American Butterflies<\/a>\"\", and is one of the preeminent butterfly experts in the world. <\/p>\n

I’m posting clips from shows I’ve worked on and am now distributing through Mastervision<\/a>. This section, on extinct butterflies, is beautiful, and oddly optimistic<\/a>. But the atala is the exception, not the rule. I remember that we didn’t want to end on a total bummer, even though it is hard to look at trends (especially the fragmentation and elimination of milkweeds because of Round Up resistant agriculture) and not be pessimistic.<\/p>\n