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Apr 09, 2015
Farmers joined others in the agriculture industry, university researchers, government and non-government agencies this week to discuss collaborative efforts in accelerating Monarch butterfly recovery.
Significant declines in the eastern migratory Monarch population are widely documented and there’s growing consensus that greater and more accelerated recovery efforts are required across the flyway – especially the I-35 corridor – to ensure a sustainable monarch population.
ASA Director Dennis Bogaards and ASA staff attended the introductory session of the Keystone Monarch Collaborative at the University of Minnesota, which brought together diverse stakeholders to discuss collaborative efforts. A coalition of environmental groups filed a petition with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, asking for the Monarch butterfly to be listed as an endangered species.
