The International Union for Conservation of Nature has placed the iconic insects on their Red List for the first time.
between the 1980s and 2021. From 2018 to 2019 alone, western monarch counts dropped by 86%. In 2021 western monarch counts were so low, down tofrom what was once a population estimated above 10 million, that there were whispers of imminent extinction.
“It is difficult to watch monarch butterflies and their extraordinary migration teeter on the edge of collapse,” said IUCN entomologist, Anna Walker, inIn the past year, there has been renewed faith in the species’ abilit y to rebound as both eastern and western butterfly surveys showed unexpected population upticks. At the monarch overwintering site in Mexico, an annual survey of their extent found they were
than the year before, according to the World Wildlife Foundation. The butterflies were clustered in trees across 7.02 acres of forest, up from 5.19 acres the year before. — more than a hundred-fold increase from the year before, according to non-profit invertebrate conservation group, the Xerces Society.
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