Monarch Butterfly

• Monarch butterfly count drops dramatically, nears record 30-year low

  Pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate change have taken their toll on the beloved pollinator.

  Environment

  Feb 4, 2025
  
• Meet a man running for the monarch butterfly. It could make your heart flutter

  A Montreal ultra-marathoner is setting out on a 4,500-km journey across the North American continent to raise awareness and funds to help protect the monarch butterfly.

  Environment

  Jul 29, 2023
  
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• Setback for Dorval Technoparc as feds reject calls, petition to protect area

  According to Environment Minister Steven Guilbeault, just because the government isn't responding to the petition, doesn't mean it is not working on solutions to protect the land.

  Environment

  Dec 7, 2022
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• Blossoming marriages funding budding gardens in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent borough

  The public garden in Parc Beaudet features a meadow of annual and perennial flowers, to attract and protect pollinators and endangered butterflies.

  Canada

  Sep 2, 2022
• Growing calls for federal government to protect ‘monarch fields’ in Dorval

  Technoparc Oiseaux members are calling on the federal government to protect the land. The group started an online petition that's garnered over 27,000 signatures on Monday.

  Environment

  Aug 15, 2022
• Pollinator gardens: How Hamilton residents can help monarch butterflies

  Hamilton environmentalists are encouraging those who are concerned about the monarch butterfly's decreasing population to create pollinator gardens in their own backyards.

  Environment

  Jul 29, 2022
• Londoner whose perennial garden was destroyed by city workers describes ‘utter shock’

  Susan McKee returned to her London, Ont., home to find her long-tended perennial garden had been weed-wacked to within an inch of the ground.

  Canada

  Jul 26, 2022
• Beloved monarch butterflies are now listed as an endangered species

  The monarch butterfly is closer to becoming extinct, but there are ways you can help boost its numbers.

  Science

  Jul 21, 2022
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• Monarch butterfly population getting closer to extinction

  Scientists estimate the monarch population in southern Canada and the eastern U.S. has fallen about 80 per cent since the mid-1990s.

  Science

  Jan 22, 2021
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• Mexico butterfly guide found dead with knife wounds within days of activist’s death

  It wasn't clear if the guide's death is related to that of a prominent butterfly activist who spoke out against illegal logging.

  News

  Feb 2, 2020