Endangered Migration - The Monarch Butterfly Story
Ecotourism: Natural Habitat Adventures
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01-Dec-2023
The annual monarch butterfly migration to Mexico is at risk, and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has l. Together, local communities and World Wildlife Fund have made significant progress toward protecting monarch butterflies' habitat in the alpine forests that the butterflies migrate to each winter. People living in the U.S. and Canada have the opportunity to help support monarch butterflies throughout the other stages of the insects' life cycles by preserving habitats and food sources like milkweed here in our own countries.
Find out how you can help WWF save the monarch butterfly at www.worldwildlife.org/species/monarch-butterfly
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