"Monarch Mentors" provides opportunities for nature enthusiasts to learn about: habitat restoration in order to re-establish healthy numbers of monarchs & pollinators and then to help educate the public to plant native milkweed species and nectar-rich plants. This seems the only way for the low monarch populations to return to previous healthy numbers.
Habitat. Habitat. Habitat.
White House Pollinator Health Strategy
.
Additional info on this Initiative will be added as available.
June 20 2014 Executive Order Signing.
Article on the White House Pollinator Health Strategy
http://makewayformonarchs.org/i/archives/1396
First "product" issued for the Pollinator Health Strategt project:
A 50-page document entitled "Supporting the Health of Bees and Other Pollinators"
Monarchs & Climate Change
Climate Change
http://www.monarchjointventure.org/threats/climate-change/
Dr James Hansen article entitled "Moanrchs Return?"
http://csas.ei.columbia.edu/2014/07/17/monarchs-return/
Dr James Hansen article (pdf): It's a Hard-Knock Butterfly's Life
http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2011/20110928_Butterfly.pdf
Alaska Science Forum: There's still time, but not much (monarchs mentioned in a Hansen talk review)
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/node/1765
Brief article about Dr Hansen:
Potential impact of climate change on monarch butterflies
by Rebecca Batalden PhD Dissertation August 2011.
https://conservancy.umn.edu/handle/11299/116140
The
Bees'
Needs.
A closeup of this neat poster on native bees can be viewed here:
