Press & Media Index
Since 2009, the Monarch Joint Venture has helped steer monarch conservation planning and implementation efforts on a broad scale by bringing together partners from across the United States, Mexico, and Canada in a unified effort to conserve the monarch migration. The MJV expertise has informed publications, films, and other media internationally.
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MJV in the Media
The MJV has been highlighted in the following media pieces:
Help save bees and butterflies on the brink this Giving Tuesday
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- CNN
On Giving Tuesday, you can help Mother Nature in a battle for survival. Pollinators, which provide one out of every three bites of our food, are struggling. Five butterfly species in the United States have gone extinct since 1950, and dozens more are on the verge of extinction, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation. Read More
Monarch Joint Venture spreads its wings to Belle Plaine
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- Henderson Independent News
Volunteers gathered in the warm, humid late afternoon on Thursday, Sept. 19, at Monarch Joint Ventures’ Prairie Oak campus in Belle Plaine for a singular purpose. To plant a pollinator garden in memory of one of Prairie Oaks Institute’s founders, Kim Devine-Johnson. But a late monarch migration gave them an unexpected bonus activity — tagging and releasing monarch butterflies. Read More
Monarch Butterfly Migration
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- KSTP-TV
- Minnesota Live
This is an abnormal year for butterfly migration. Monarchs should be traveling to Mexico right now, but many are still in Minnesota. Rita Morris from Monarch Joint Venture tells us why this could be and how to protect monarchs. Read More
‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly
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- The Guardian
Jaime Rojo has been following the fate of the monarch butterfly for more than 20 years. In the process the Spanish photographer has watched one of the planet’s most colourful, flamboyant insect species succumb to the combined onslaught of habitat destruction, climate change, pesticides, drought and wildfires. Its population has crashed in the process. Read More
Monarch festival celebrates spectacular migration; but the iconic butterflies numbers are down
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- CBS News
Hundreds packed Lake Nokomis Park Saturday for music, food and dance, celebrating one of the most spectacular insect migrations in the world. But amid the festivities, is an unsettling observation made among many monarch lovers. Read More