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A 2014 study acknowledged that while "the protection of overwintering habitat has no doubt gone a long way towards conserving monarchs that breed throughout eastern North America", their research indicates that habitat loss on breeding grounds in the United States is the main cause of recent and projected population declines. [183] Western ...
The Western population of the monarch butterfly hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this ... An all-time low of fewer than 2,000 monarchs was recorded in 2020.
California's monarch population has declined sharply from 4.5 million in the 1980s. The population initially dropped to nearly 200,000 and had an even greater decrease during 2018. That year, the population fell to nearly 30,000. By November 2020, the population had dropped to fewer than 2,000, representing a 99% collapse in three decades. [46]
Butterfly counts are sometimes done where there is a concentration (a roost) of a species of butterflies in an area. One example of this is the winter count of western monarch butterflies as they roost together at sites in California, northern Mexico and Arizona. [4]
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is pushing for added protections for the monarch butterfly after seeing a population decline of about 80%. The service announced a proposal to list the butterfly ...
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The number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last year, likely due to how wet it was, researchers said Tuesday. Volunteers who visited sites in California ...
The western monarch butterfly population wintering along California's coast remains critically low for the second year in a row, a count by an environmental group released Thursday showed. The ...