Youth dedicated to saving the monarch butterflies.
We are youth spanning three countries committed to protecting the incredible monarch butterflies.
Monarch butterflies are threatened, in part due to loss of habitat along their annual migratory routes. Our mission is to ensure their survival by restoring habitat, one yard at a time, across North America.
Monarchs are astonishing creatures with one of the most spectacular migrations on earth.
Eastern monarchs travel between 1,200 and 2,800 miles from the eastern U.S. and Canada, where they breed, to the oyamel fir tree forests in Mexico’s central highlands, where they hibernate during the winter. Western monarch butterflies overwinter on the California coast.
But they are heading towards extinction at an alarming rate.
Eastern monarch populations have declined by over 80% and western populations have declined by over 90% due to habitat loss, pesticides, and climate change and are one of the countless other species that humanity is threatening with extinction.
"The nice thing about insects is that most have incredibly large numbers of offspring, so if you change the habitat in the right way we will see them recover really fast."
- Dr Roel Van Klink, quoted by the BBC