A Down-To-Earth Organization That Is All About Hope
A Down-To-Earth Organization That Is All About Hope
Monarch Butterfly Migration Rebounds, Easing Some Fears After years of being ravaged by severe weather and shrinking habitats, the monarch butterflies hibernating in the Mexican mountains rebounded last year, kindling cautious hope that one of the insect world’s most captivating migrations may yet survive. The World Wildlife Fund said at a news conference here on…
Laura Bush announces multi-agency monarch butterfly conservation plan In the midst of the monarch butterfly migration season across Texas, state and federal officials joined Laura Bush Tuesday morning to announce a conservation effort to help repopulate – and sustain- the species’ population. “Monarch butterflies and their fellow pollinators … are vital to the well being…
For the migrating monarch butterflies, there is no place quite like the Lone Star State Millions of tiny visitors from the north are starting to flutter into Texas, ready to treat the state as an all-you-can-eat buffet, building up fat levels that sustain them all winter in the cool mountains of Mexico. And if all…
Nature foundation unveils $3.3 million in monarch butterfly grants A national wildlife group says it is doling out $3.3 million in grants as part of an initial push to stem the worrisome decline of monarch butterflies. The 22 grants announced Monday by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will be matched by more than $6.7…
Here they come again…monarch butterflies are headed north. And they’re off! The annual monarch migration is underway as of March 24, when observers in Angangueo, Mexico, spotted a mass of the burnt-orange beauties fluttering northward. After a winterlong siesta in toastier climes, the eastern population will travel all the way to the northern United States…
