Monarch Joint Venture Blog
Habitat projects in the West: Highlighting some of our 2025 partnerships
Work continues to restore pollinator habitat across the western landscape. We're working with partners to ensure that insects, animals, and humans continue to benefit from a thriving, interconnected environment. Here are some of our 2025 partnerships from California. Read More
MJV awarded NEEF biodiversity conservation grant to turn wildfire into a win for wildlife
Monarch Joint Venture is pleased to announce a new pollinator habitat restoration project in the Southern Plains, made possible by a Biodiversity Conservation Grant from the National Environmental Education Foundation. The project will restore and enhance over 1,100 acres of public land at the Concannon and Finney Wildlife Management Areas in southwest Kansas, in collaboration with the Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks and Ducks Unlimited. Read More
Growing together: Pocket pollinator habitat and community action in Nebraska's monarch priority zone
Wahoo Parks & Recreation partners with the Monarch Joint Venture to create over three acres of pollinator habitat. Read More
More than monarchs: novel ways to monitor the wildlife benefits of CRP habitat
The Conservation Reserve Program provides private landowners with financial assistance to convert highly erodible or environmentally sensitive cropland to vegetative cover. Providing financial incentives for private landowners to create and maintain wildlife habitat can be a key piece of the puzzle to achieving these large-scale conservation goals, not only for monarchs but for all wildlife. Read More
Tagging monarchs, planting hope: NIPSCO supports conservation across Northern Indiana
Earlier this fall, the Monarch Joint Venture teamed up again with volunteers from NIPSCO to catch, tag, and release monarch butterflies. The tags used were from the Monarch Watch tagging program, a large-scale community science project initiated in 1992 to help understand the dynamics of the monarch's spectacular fall migration through mark-and-recapture. Read More