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Pledge Status

Did Not Report

Pledge Date

Thursday, March 28, 2024

Program Year

2024

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COMMUNITY OF LAREDO

LAREDO, TX

VICTOR TREVINO

MAYOR

Pledge Summary

LAREDO TEXAS IS ADYNAMIC COMMUNITY ON THE TEXAS-MEXICO BORDER THAT IS INTERTWINED IN COMMERCE, HISTORY AND FAMILY WITH OUR NEIGHBOR AND SISTER CITY OF NUEVO LAREDO, TAMP., MEXICO. AS THE #1 PORT OF ENTRY IN THE U.S., WE ARE PROUD TO HOST A WORLD RENOWN BIRDING FESTIVAL AND SEVERAL ECOLOGICALLY FRIENDLY PROGRAMS ALONG THE BEAUTIFUL RIO GRANDE RIVER WHICH IS SURROUNDED BY INCREDIBLE NATIVE PLANTS AND POLLINATOR SPECIES.

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Action Items Committed for 2024

Communications and Convening

  • Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
  • Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.

Program and Demonstration Gardens

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.

Systems Change

  • Increase the percentage of native plants, shrubs and trees that must be used in city landscaping ordinances and encourage use of milkweed, where appropriate.