With 86% Drop, California’s Monarch Butterfly Population Hits Record Low

Every winter monarch butterflies arrive in California each winter, waiting to return home in spring. This year the flight seemed for perilous than ever. A nonprofit group has conducted a yearly census of the butterflies and they dropped a total 86% this year. In 2017 the total monarch butterflies were a total of 148,000, but in 2018 there were a total of 20,456. Their at a great risk of extinction by 72% in 20 years. There has to be a way we can help them, I think it's horrible that something like could end so quickly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/09/science/monarch-butterfly-california.html

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  1. AnonymousJanuary 17, 2019 at 8:23 AM

    So sad! but that is such a big drop we need to do whatever we can to save them.

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 22, 2019 at 8:15 PM

    Oh no! I am wondering how this is happening, if it is because if global warming or if it is a habitat problem or both?! This makes me so sad! And when you think about it, in the summer you really don't see a lot of butterflies anymore... hmm....

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