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Meet Our Newest Partner: Harambee Elementary School

Oct 24, 2025

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  • MJV Partnership News

We’re thrilled to announce that Harambee Elementary School, located in Maplewood, Minnesota, has officially joined the Monarch Joint Venture partnership, taking another step in the school’s commitment to environmental education, protection, and collaboration. Read More

Tagging monarchs, planting hope: NIPSCO supports conservation across Northern Indiana

Oct 23, 2025

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  • Community Science
  • MJV Partnership News
  • Habitat News

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

CPKC supports MJV in restoring habitat and expanding education access

Oct 10, 2025

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  • MJV Partnership News
  • Habitat News
  • Education News
  • Prairie Oaks

A new grant from Canadian Pacific Kansas City will help the Monarch Joint Venture expand pollinator conservation efforts by enhancing habitat restoration, translating educational resources into Spanish, and increasing community engagement opportunities that benefit monarchs and other pollinators. Read More

MJV elevates pollinator habitat monitoring through drone surveys and trainings

Oct 03, 2025

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  • Science and research

Monarch Joint Venture is using drones to elevate how it and other conservation organizations monitor pollinator habitat. Read More

10 of Habitat Manager Jake Koenig's favorite fall blooms

Sep 29, 2025

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  • Habitat News

Fall-blooming flowers give us one last hurrah before temperatures drop and we settle in for winter, but they also provide important nectar for monarchs making the trip south. When you're thinking about what you want your garden or habitat space to look like at this time next year, consider adding some of these flowers. Read More