Monarch Butterfly
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Meet a man running for the monarch butterfly. It could make your heart flutterA 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.EnvironmentJul 29, 2023
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Setback for Dorval Technoparc as feds reject calls, petition to protect areaAccording 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.EnvironmentDec 7, 2022
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Blossoming marriages funding budding gardens in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent boroughThe public garden in Parc Beaudet features a meadow of annual and perennial flowers, to attract and protect pollinators and endangered butterflies.CanadaSep 2, 2022
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Growing calls for federal government to protect ‘monarch fields’ in DorvalTechnoparc 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.EnvironmentAug 15, 2022
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Pollinator gardens: How Hamilton residents can help monarch butterfliesHamilton environmentalists are encouraging those who are concerned about the monarch butterfly's decreasing population to create pollinator gardens in their own backyards.EnvironmentJul 29, 2022
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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.CanadaJul 26, 2022
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Beloved monarch butterflies are now listed as an endangered speciesThe monarch butterfly is closer to becoming extinct, but there are ways you can help boost its numbers.ScienceJul 21, 2022
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Monarch butterfly population getting closer to extinctionScientists estimate the monarch population in southern Canada and the eastern U.S. has fallen about 80 per cent since the mid-1990s.ScienceJan 22, 2021
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Mexico butterfly guide found dead with knife wounds within days of activist’s deathIt wasn't clear if the guide's death is related to that of a prominent butterfly activist who spoke out against illegal logging.NewsFeb 2, 2020
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Insect migration studied with the help of tiny ‘fanny packs’: researcherA new study by University of Guelph researchers, in connection with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, has equipped a pair of insect species – monarch butterflies and common green darner dragonflies – with tiny radio-transmitting 'fanny packs' that will help researchers track their migration.EnvironmentJul 7, 2019
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