The City of Carbondale has pledged to protect monarch butterflies and other pollinators by signing the National Wildlife Federation's Mayors' Monarch Pledge.
The City has committed to:
- Protecting pollinators in southern Illinois
- Raising awareness the pollinator decline
- Reviewing the City code to encourage pollinator-supportive landscapes
- Correcting landscape maintenance practices that harm pollinators
- Creating a community "pollinator yards" pilot program to educate and support planting pollinator-supportive landscapes.
Carbondale joins a North American network of cities working to create habitat in public parks, public landscaping, vacant lots, roadsides, medians, green roofs, backyard gardens and open spaces throughout the community.
