We Need to Talk About the Butterflies
A troubling new study shows that hundreds of butterfly species are disappearing in the American West. Another recent report indicates that the number of monarchs that migrated to Mexico last year fell by more than a quarter from 2019. In each case, researchers say the climate crisis is driving the beloved pollinators' decline. Read on for more about the state of the butterfly, and learn what you can do to help.
2020 was a bad year for butterflies, too. The population of monarch butterflies that migrated to Mexico to ride out the cold winter months in the north fell 26% from a year earlier, according to a new report from the Mexican government and the Word Wildlife Fund. Mexico's Commission for Natural …
Habitat loss and climate change are decimating the species. What can the U.S. learn from Oklahoma tribes’ efforts to restore their migratory …
Environmental destruction and violence threaten one of the world’s most extraordinary insect migrations. February 8, 2021 Every November, around the Day of the Dead, millions of monarch butterflies descend on a forest of oyamel firs in the mountains of central Mexico. The butterflies have never seen …
Monarch butterflies are in trouble. Over the last few decades, populations of these iconic orange and black butterflies have declined by over 90 …
This is not a drill. California is poised to lose the Western monarch butterfly and its mysterious annual migration from the continent’s Western regions to the coastal areas between Baja and Mendocino. The list for blame is long — habitat destruction, insecticides, herbicides and, yes, good …
