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for monarch butterfly conservation

Hi Judith,

Monarch butterflies are flying towards extinction.?

The western monarch population has crashed by 99.9%, with only 1,039 butterflies recorded overwintering in coastal California this year — the lowest number ever recorded. In the past two decades, eastern monarch populations have plummeted more than 80%, dramatically increasing the likelihood of extinction.

We've called on Congress to provide $100 million per year for the conservation of monarch butterflies to help stem their rapid population decline and prevent them from slipping further towards extinction.

Without emergency help from Congress, it’s almost certain that the western population of monarch butterflies, which famously winters on the California coast each year, will collapse within a few years.

For the eastern population of monarchs, which overwinters in Mexico, the population has fallen by 26% since last year and 85% overall since the mid-1990s. According to the federal government’s own scientists there is now up to an 80% chance they will collapse within 50 years.

Monarch butterflies have been moving towards extinction because of landscape-scale threats from pesticides, development and global climate change. But monarchs aren’t the only insects threatened by climate change. According to a recent report, hundreds of butterfly species across the American West are vanishing as the region becomes hotter and drier. There has also been a similar drop in bumblebees nationwide due to rising temperatures.

The climate crisis can’t wait. Pollinators can’t wait. The beloved monarch butterfly can't wait.?

Dedicating $100 million a year to monarch conservation gives these beloved butterflies a fighting chance at survival.

Thank you for taking action,??

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? ???Audrey Fusco
? ? ?Nursery Manager & Restoration Ecologist
? ? ?SPAWN

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