Natural Resources Foundation of Wisconsin Becomes a Monarch Joint Venture...
In the last 20 years, monarch butterfly populations in the U.S. have declined by more than 70 percent due to habitat loss, pesticide use, climate change, and other threats. The decrease in the...
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Eastern Monarch Population Numbers Drop 27%
This year’s measurement of the eastern monarch overwintering population showed a 27% decrease compared to last year, occupying 2.91 hectares of forest in Mexico’s transvolcanic mountains during the...
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Fostering Young Conservationists: Great Parks of Hamilton County and...
“We could never have loved the earth so well, if we had no childhood in it” – George Eliot Rothenberg Preparatory Academy, located in the urban center of Cincinnati, Ohio, serves a population of...
View ArticleIowa Partnership Unveils State Monarch Conservation Strategy
As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts their Species Status Assessment for monarchs to determine whether or not to list them under the Endangered Species Act, many states are organizing to take...
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Can roadside habitat lead monarchs on a route to recovery?
Post written by Kyle Kasten, University of Minnesota Monarch Lab Researcher. With monarch populations declining in large part due to habitat loss, conservationists have been searching for creative ways...
View ArticleMinnesota Native Landscapes for Pollinators!
Minnesota Native Landscapes (MNL) is an ecological restoration company working to promote and restore native habitat in Minnesota and beyond. As a new Monarch Joint Venture partner, MNL’s work...
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Monarchs Spring into Northward Migration
The long awaited monarch migration has begun! Monarchs streamed out of their overwintering grounds in Mexico en masse last week, signaling the start of spring and a new growing season of milkweed and...
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Monarch Joint Venture Welcomes Bee City USA
High-quality habitat is not partial to the species that it welcomes; birds, bees, butterflies and more find the resources that they need in pollinator habitat! Without pollinators, our diets would be...
View ArticleHow well do we know you? Share your thoughts and help shape future MJV News...
Share what you think about the MJV News Updates by taking our MJV News Updates Survey! This questionnaire will help us get to know you (our readers) better, and will help guide future MJV News Updates....
View ArticleMeasuring Monarchs and Milkweed
It is common knowledge that the North American monarch population is declining. From a high in 1996 to their record low in 2013, the eastern monarch population size fell by over 90%. These population...
View ArticleNew IDOT Mowing Approach to Help Protect Monarch Butterfly, Pollinator...
Press Release by the Illinois Department of Transportation, May 15, 2017, available on the Illinois.gov website. To help revive the shrinking populations of the monarch butterfly and other pollinators,...
View ArticleTexan by Nature, Partner by Choice
Given the vastness of the Texas landscape and its importance to spring monarch reproduction and spring and fall migration, the state has a large role to play in efforts to protect monarch butterflies....
View ArticleConnecting Biodiversity and Sustainability to Monarchs: UTSA Lab joins MJV
The Biodiversity and Ecological Sustainability (BES) Laboratory at The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) has been invited to join the Monarch Joint Venture (MJV), a national partnership of...
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Correctional facilities join the fight to save the monarch butterfly
The Ohio Pollinator Habitat Initiative is working to engage all Ohioans with monarch conservation, including nontraditional conservation partners. One such partner has answered the call to save the...
View ArticleAnnouncing 2017-2018 MJV Sponsored Partner Projects
Today, the Monarch Joint Venture is pleased to announce our support for partner conservation projects in the upcoming year. We’ve allocated $100,000 to support actions outlined in the 2017 Monarch...
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All hands on deck! Everyone’s help needed to restore habitat for monarchs.
This article was based on this USGS press release about the study. A recently published study has found that everyone has a role to play in restoring the eastern monarch population. Scientists from...
View ArticleHelp Wanted: Contribute to the Monarch Monitoring Blitz!
We’re calling all citizen scientists from the United-States, Canada and Mexico to report their observations for an international monarch monitoring blitz from July 29th - August 5th! With enough...
View ArticleMeasuring Monarchs and Milkweed
It is common knowledge that the North American monarch population is declining. From a high in 1996 to their record low in 2013, the eastern monarch population size fell by over 90%. These population...
View ArticleNew IDOT Mowing Approach to Help Protect Monarch Butterfly, Pollinator...
Press Release by the Illinois Department of Transportation, May 15, 2017, available on the Illinois.gov website. To help revive the shrinking populations of the monarch butterfly and other pollinators,...
View ArticleTexan by Nature, Partner by Choice
Given the vastness of the Texas landscape and its importance to spring monarch reproduction and spring and fall migration, the state has a large role to play in efforts to protect monarch butterflies....
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