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The Butterfly Highway

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Welcome to Stop 3024 on the Butterfly Highway

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In collaboration with the North Carolina Wildlife Federation, UNCW Dining Sustainability is dedicated to safeguarding pollinators and rehabilitating ecosystems. Through this collaboration, we commit to providing and preserving an insecticide-free environment for pollinators that satisfies wildlife's basic needs, such as native plants, food, water, shelter, and areas to bear young and to nurture offspring.

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The rate at which development is destroying habitats and jeopardizing habitat connectivity is so high that there are not many remaining areas for wildlife to flourish. A clear illustration of how habitat loss affects species is shown through the monarch butterfly, whose population has dropped by 90% in the last 20 years.

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The butterfly highway now includes more than 30,000 acres of registered "pollinator pitstops" where gardeners and land managers support and protect pollinators in partnership with NCWF.

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Come stop by and see the garden at the back of Wagoner Dining Hall.

Explore the Highway

For more information on The Butterfly Highway Project and a map of all pollinator pitstops use the button below.

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