Tierra Curry is a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity

where she focuses on gaining protections for imperiled species and their

habitats. She is a lead author on the scientific petition filed this year

seeking Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies. Lori Ann

Burd is endangered species campaign director and an attorney at the Center

for Biological Diversity. She has been working on issues of biodiversity

and pesticide use for over a dozen years, and recently authored a

successful petition to get GE crops and bee-killing pesticides banned in

our 150 million acre national wildlife refuge system.

