Monarch Joint Venture Blog
Welcoming Natural Habitat Adventures to the MJV Partner Network
After years of working together, the Monarch Joint Venture is pleased to officially welcome Natural Habitat Adventures (NatHab) to the MJV partnership. Since 1985, when the company’s first tour took guests to see harp seals in Canada’s Gulf of St. Lawrence, NatHab has been working to provide people with up-close experiences in nature in an unobtrusive manner, with trips averaging just nine guests. This includes African safaris, Galapagos Tours, Antarctic journeys, and beyond, as well as its Kingdom of the Monarchs tours to monarch overwintering sites in Mexico. Read More
Mississippi Master Naturalist Joins the MJV Partner Network
The Monarch Joint Venture is happy to announce that Mississippi Master Naturalist, a program of the Mississippi State University Extension, is our latest Monarch Joint Venture partner. There is increasing interest among Master Naturalists along the Mississippi Coast in monitoring, conservation, and education related to monarchs, butterflies, and other pollinators. Read More
MJV Welcomes The Pizzo Group to the Partner Network
The Monarch Joint Venture is excited to welcome the Pizzo Group, an ecological restoration group based in Leland, Illinois, to the MJV partnership. The Pizzo Group, with the monarch butterfly as its logo, recognizes the importance of preserving habitat for monarchs and other pollinators. The organization was founded in 1988 based on a passion for the preservation and restoration of natural ecosystems. Read More
Welcoming Nebraska Monarchs to the MJV Partner Network
The Monarch Joint Venture would like to welcome Nebraska Monarchs to the MJV partnership. Nebraska Monarchs provides free native plants and garden plans on its website to help community groups and individuals create their own micro-habitats and make a measurable impact on the amount and quality of pollinator habitat in Omaha and surrounding areas. In addition to free plant giveaways, the organization provides education through its website, social media channels, and community events. 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