July 07, 2015
(NaturalBlaze.com) A recent report confirms that over 80% of North American monarch butterflies have died. The Xerces Society, a non-profit organization that aims to preserve wildlife through conservation of invertebrates and their habitats, notes that “in the 1990s, estimates of up to one billion monarchs made the epic flight each fall from the northern plains of the U.S. and Canada to sites in the oyamel fir forests north of Mexico City.”
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Now, however, “researchers and citizen scientists estimate that only about 56.5 million monarchs remain, representing a decline of more than 80% from the 21-year average across North America.”
The Xerces Society’s figures confirm mounting evidence that has emerged over the last several years. It names several reasons for the severe decline in butterflies. One of the primary causes is the widespread use of herbicides that contain glyphosate, the active ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup and other herbicides. Widespread use has killed off milkweed, a plant monarch caterpillars rely upon for sustenance.
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