Monarch Butterflies
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Studying Milkweed for Monarchs Pilot project collects key information on milkweed densities to help inform national strategies for milkweed restoration. |
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Concerns About Monarch Releases "Breeding and releasing monarchs might seem like a harmless activity, something that might even help struggling populations. Unfortunately, the practice holds the potential to actually harm wild monarchs and disrupt research that is critical to their conservation. |
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Newsy Documentary: Saving the Migration "We can't stay the course we're on or we will lose the migration," warns Dr. Chip Taylor. |
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Mexico Book Project A literacy effort for the schools that surround the Mexican overwintering sanctuaries. |
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Public-Private Parternship for Pollinators Minnesota kicks off five-year effort to restore butterfly and bee habitat in the St. Croix River watershed. |
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New Blog: The Science of Monarch Butterflies A blog about monarchs, written by monarch scientists, for people who love monarchs. |
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Special Feature: Monarch Butterfly Research Collection |
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Brochure to Promote Citizen Science A beautiful new handout from Wild Ones summarizes monarch-related citizen science projects. Download, print, and promote to people in your network. |
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Radio Interview: PRI's The World 'The situation is desperate' for monarch butterflies, but here's the plan to save them. |
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White House Announces Steps to Promote Pollinator Health A new national conservation strategy to help pollinators includes a goal to increase the monarch population to 225 million butterflies. The population dropped to 57 million last winter. |
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Monarch Mission in Minnesota Television KARE11, Bachman's and Prairie Moon Nursery teamed up to encourage people to create backyard monarch habitats by giving away 11,000 packets of Rose Milkweed seeds. |
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#SaveMilkweedSaveMonarchs Planting Challenge Challenge friends or family to plant milkweed, then 'tag' 5 people you know to do the same. |
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Will Superweeds, Regulation Create Perfect Storm in Iowa? New research revelations, government policy changes and farmers’ own dissatisfactions could radically alter both weed and pollinator management in the Midwest. |
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Volunteers Needed: Monarch Larva Monitoring Project Citizen Scientists needed to collect data to help assess the status of the monarch population recovery by counting monarchs this summer. |
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Small Step for Monarch, Giant Leap for Conservation Conservationists from the US, Canada, and Mexico met at the Trilateral Committee for Wildlife and Ecosystem Conservation in San Diego. The goal: to find ways to help the nations work together to conserve North America’s wildlife and ecosystems — including monarchs. |
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Keystone Monarch Butterfly Collaborative Farm organizations, farmers, government agencies, monarch researchers, agriculture companies, and conservation organizations met on April 6-7, 2015 to explore how to achieve monarch recovery goals within the agricultural landscape. |
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Monsanto to Provide $4M for Monarchs Monsanto Agribusiness company says it's committing millions of dollars to the monarch recovery effort. |
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Status of the Monarch Butterfly A new report prepared for the U.S. Forest Service by NatureServe and the Xerces Society finds monarch butterflies in North America are vulnerable to extinction. |
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Build support for monarchs by posting the migration map on your website or blog. To understand the monarch's conservation needs, we rely on the help of citizen scientists. Invite your followers to report their monarch observations. |
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Monarch Conseration Webinar Series Upcoming webinar topics have been announced: Citizen Science (Apri 23), Habitat Augmentation (April 30), Monarch Research (May 21). Previous programs can be viewed any time here. |
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Monarch Rearing and Endangered Status In response to interest and concern, the wording about numbers of monarchs that individuals can rear and release has been revised from 10 to 100 wild caterpillars. |
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Monarch Citizen Science and Data Accuracy Read Dr. Karen Oberhauser's thoughts based on the experiences of the three largest-scale monarch citizen science projects. (See pages 2 & 3.) |
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NBC News: Effort to Save Monarch Butterfly Gets Boost The monarch once a common sight across the country, their numbers have dropped off dramatically. now major effort underway to save them before too late. |
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Q & A With Dr. Lincoln Brower Dr. Brower talks ethics, endangered species, milkweed and monarchs. |
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U.S. Government Pledges $3.2 Million for Monarch Conservation February 9, 2015 The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced a $3.2 million initiative for monarch conservation. About $2 million will restore 200,000 acres of habitat across the nation. The other $1.2 million will provide the first dedicated source of funding for projects working to conserve monarchs. |
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Webinar: Habitat Restoration Fundamentals Step-by-step procedures for designing, installing, and managing native plant communities specifically designed for monarch breeding. Real world case studies will be provided, and successful approaches in multiple eco-regions will be described. |
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Monarch Conservation: Our Choices Dr. Chip Taylor of Monarch Watch outlines his views of the choices ahead, and says large scale public-private partnerships (P3s) are the best option. |
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Illinois Tollway Planting 286 Miles of Milkweed The Illinois Tollway Authority this week agreed to work with the Natural Resources Defense Council to plant milkweed along 286 miles of roadways, including suburban areas of I90, I88 and I294. |
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Monarch Moves Toward Endangered Species Status The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said today that Endangered Species Act protection may be warranted for monarchs. The agency will now conduct a one-year status review. |
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Webinar Series: Monarch Biology and Conservation Basics Dec. 17, 2014 is the first webinar in a Series by the Monarch Joint Venture and the US Fish and Wildlife Service. Future webinars will focus on habitat conservation, milkweed propagation, and other topics to help you take an active role in conserving monarchs. |
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USGS Brings Scientific Capabilities to Conservation Efforts The U.S. Geological Survey is the research arm of the Department of the Interior. As a new MJV partner, the USGS will dedicate its expertise to strengthen monarch conservation in the U.S. |
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Presidential Memorandum to Protect Pollinators Given the breadth, severity, and persistence of pollinator losses, the recent Presidential Memorandum expands Federal efforts and takes new steps to reverse pollinator losses and help restore populations to healthy levels. |
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Journey North a New MJV Partner As a member of the MJV monarch conservation team, Journey North will work collaboratively with other partners to help extend monarch conservation through citizen science monitoring, education, and outreach efforts. |
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