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Local action can have a national impact. In 2017, local conservation organizations in Wilton, Connecticut came together to address one of our most pervasive ecological challenges, habitat fragmentation. This on-going process, the division of natural areas into ever-smaller, isolated parcels, is fatal to wildlife populations, diminishing their numbers and diversity. The Wilton activists decided to do something. They would reconnect their natural areas with green corridors of native plants, and they would enlist the public by focusing on the popular cause of pollinator decline – everybody loves butterflies. And so the “Pollinator Pathway” movement was born. Four years later, not only is Wilton reconnected, but neighboring towns and hundreds of communities up and down the East Coast have come on board, creating a vital network of greenways that link not only area to area within towns but also town to town from northern New England to Maryland. Listen to a founder tell how this was accomplished.
