An illegally-erected monument to an extinct butterfly was removed from Golden Gate Park on Friday by San Francisco public art officials.
The sculpture,"Memorial to the Extinct Xerces Blue Butterfly," was"an unauthorized sculpture intervention of unknown provenance by an unidentified artist or group of artists that was installed on the vacant plinth that was previously the base of the Padre Junipero Serra statue," San Francisco Arts Commission officials said in a news release Friday.
The Xerces blue butterfly is the first butterfly species in North America to die off as a result of human behavior, according to information on the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation website. "The manner in which this unsanctioned and unpermitted work that was surreptitiously installed without going through the proper process and procedure as outlined in the Art Commission's Guidelines for Temporary Public Art installations poses numerous safety concerns," art officials said.
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