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Twenty inmates at a Wisconsin prison are nursing endangered monarch butterflies from caterpillar to release, giving back to their community while helping save a species in decline. The program has nearly doubled in its second year, with participants raising 100 butterflies destined for a 2,000-mile journey to Mexico.
Women in a Washington prison are raising endangered Taylor's checkerspot butterflies, giving both the species and themselves a second chance. The program has become a lifeline for a butterfly that lost 97% of its habitat.
Britain is transforming government land into wildlife havens, with plans to grow trees at prisons and restore peat bogs on military bases. The ambitious project aims to help nature while improving prisoner welfare and reducing flooding.
Inside five Ohio prisons, incarcerated volunteers are nursing orphaned opossums, injured squirrels, and vulnerable wildlife back to health. The program is giving both animals and humans a second chance.
