Martin,
Monarch butterflies from coast to coast are in real trouble—with numbers plummeting in the last few decades by as much as 90 percent for the eastern population and by over 99 percent for the western population.
But your member of Congress can help turn the tide for these magnificent butterflies.
The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act will direct investments in every state to save declining species like struggling monarchs and help restore habitat crucial for their survival. Will you tell your member of Congress to help recover monarchs and all at-risk species by supporting the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act?
Each fall, monarch butterflies embark on an incredible migration to their wintering grounds. West of the Rockies, the population heads to the Pacific coast, where they gather in scattered roosts in the trees in central and southern California. Eastern monarchs breed in the Great Plains and across central and eastern U.S. and Canada and, as you are reading this message, are on their transnational migration to central Mexico.
The loss of the critical host plant, milkweed, has caused significant declines in both the Eastern and Western monarch populations. Habitat loss, pesticide usage, and the planting of non-native and exotic plants are to blame.
Martin, please urge your member of Congress to step up for monarchs by supporting the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act.
When passed and signed into law, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act will be the most significant investment in wildlife conservation in many decades. It will fund state and tribal led efforts to help wildlife at risk and to prevent wildlife from becoming endangered.
But the current federal funding available is about five percent of what we’d need to prevent wildlife from becoming endangered in every state.
Let’s not lose the magical sight of monarch butterflies as they float by on their annual migration! Please speak out to help provide states and tribes the support needed to take on recovery efforts for the monarch.
Thank you for taking action to help do great things for our wildlife and the natural world.
