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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:

‘Every tree used to be blanketed with them’: photographer captures campaign to save monarch butterfly

Sep 29, 2024

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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

Sep 07, 2024

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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

Restoring habitat for monarch butterflies

Aug 30, 2024

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  • 9NEWS

Buckley Space Force Base is helping make their land a better home for monarch butterflies. Read More

Colorado's Buckley Space Force Base protects monarch butterflies with new conservation efforts

Aug 29, 2024

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  • CBS News

When you think of military bases, wildlife preservation may not come to mind, but members of the military are actually very good stewards of the land, and it's no different at Buckley Space Force Base in Colorado. Read More

Buckley Space Force Base joins effort to preserve habitat important to migrating monarch butterflies

Aug 29, 2024

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  • Denver7- ABC

Buckley Space Force Base is partnering with the US Fish & Wildlife Service and Monarch Joint Venture to preserve a habitat important to migrating monarch butterflies. Read More