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July 12, 2023
For hundreds of years, as Day of the Dead celebrations begin, the blue skies of the State of Michoacán and the State of México are painted with bright orange, black and white kaleidoscopes.
June 23, 2023
La enmienda presentada por el senador Jeff Merkley (D-OR), a la Ley de Comercialización Agrícola de 1964, que establece el uso de una etiqueta para identificar a las plantas que son favorables con los polinizadores, brindaría a los consumidores una forma confiable de asegurarse de que están ayudando a las mariposas y a otros polinizadores, y que no los perjudican sin darse cuenta.
June 23, 2023
Senator Jeff Merkely’s (D-Ore.) pollinator-friendly plant labeling bill will give consumers a reliable way to ensure they are helping butterflies and many other pollinators.
March 22, 2023
This year’s continued decline of the eastern monarch butterfly population demonstrates a dire and imminent need for investment in conservation initiatives including on-the-ground collaboration and long-sought legislation.
March 17, 2023
The Monarch Action, Recovery, and Conservation of Habitat Act (Monarch Act) invests in the conservation and recovery of the threatened western migratory monarch and other native pollinators that are vital to healthy ecosystems, biodiversity and our nation’s food supply.
March 6, 2023
As the western monarch population edges closer to extinction, these butterflies need the resources that the Monarch Act will provide to support restoration of their habitats and recovery of their population.
January 31, 2023
The Western population of the migratory monarch butterfly has seen a slight increase due to collaborative conservation efforts, but extreme weather events and the continued impacts of the climate crisis continue to threaten this iconic species.
July 21, 2022
The International Union of Conservation of Nature’s addition of the migratory monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) to the Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM is further validation that this imperiled species is in desperate need of protection and recovery.
May 31, 2022
Plant native milkweed and native nectar plants that will support monarch caterpillars and monarch adults.