PORTLAND Ore. (KPTV) - “Captive rearing” is not ideal, but it can be transformative. When an endangered species gets to the point of needing this kind of help, wildlife experts consider it a last ...

It’s a sunny July afternoon, and Grayslake neighbors Annie Lawson and Heather Bauer are standing at the side of Lawson’s home, carefully going through her garden of milkweed plants. Lawson points at ...

Fishing duo Cole & Jay raise hundreds of monarch butterflies from start to finish.

It’s a long way from Chicago to Texas, but what’s a thousand miles between butterfly rescuers? Bob Erlich lives in Evergreen Park. Therese Smith lives in Austin, Texas. They’ve never met but, thanks ...

Great Neck's Cynthia Zhang and Massapequa's Gia Providente earned the 2025 Gloria Barron Prize for Young Heroes.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — After five weeks of raising caterpillars into butterflies, PS 23 fifth-grade students watched the winged insects fly into the sky and onto wildflowers during a release at ...