Promoting more native habitats to connect Chicago communities
Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) graduate student Juliana Castagna of Homewood, Illinois, published an opinion piece in the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle.
Promoting more native habitats to connect Chicago communities
Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP) graduate student Juliana Castagna of Homewood, Illinois, published an opinion piece in the Homewood-Flossmoor Chronicle. In "Fixing Habitat Fragmentation in Our Communities: Native Plantings Can Help Residents and Roaming Animals" Castagna explains how the communities of Homewood and Flossmoor value green spaces but the "scattered distribution of these green spaces can be detrimental to species that rely on larger habitat spaces to fully thrive." She suggests transitioning neighborhood lawns into native habitats, which "can offer more connectivity between the larger habitats as they would offer food, shelter, and other resources for animals moving through our neighborhoods." Castagna's experiential learning takes place at Brookfield Zoo Chicago.
As a student in Miami's biology department, Castagna is earning a Master of Arts (M.A.) in Biology through Project Dragonfly's AIP while working as a quality control sample management analyst at CSL Behring.
