Katharina Buczek
The National Wildlife Federation website offers numerous resources to help you create a monarch safe haven: including appropriate shelter cover, water access, places to raise young, and more.
Finally, you can also support greater community efforts to protect the species. A priority in monarch conservation is the protection of America’s native grasslands.
They are home to milkweed and nectar plants– which are essential to both caterpillars and adult butterflies.
However, over ninety percent of America’s grasslands have been converted for developments and croplands– only contributing to monarch’s habitat loss.
To join the National Wildlife Federation in the fight against grassland loss, you can visit the link here.
Another helpful community effort is the Highway Habitat Corridor. This program is a partnership between the National Wildlife Federation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to plant both milkweed and nectar plants along common migratory flight paths. To learn more about the effort and get involved, visit the link here.
And while breeding and releasing monarch butterflies might seem like a helpful practice, environmental experts have actually warned against this.
The captive-bred butterflies can introduce parasites, reduce genetic diversity, and actually lead to further population loss.
To learn more about the dangers of captive breeding, you can visit the link here.
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