As devastating storms pounded California, nature lovers feared for endangered monarch butterflies that winter there as part of a seemingly magical migration pattern. | AFP
The sight provided a bit of reassurance for Stephanie Turcotte Edenholm, who counted more than a thousand monarchs at a sanctuary in the California coastal town of Pacific Grove.
But the ranks of butterflies were far from the millions observed in the 1980s, due to threats including habitat loss, pesticides and climate change, according to Xerces.The monarch was added last year to the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of threatened species and Xerces has asked the US Fish and Wildlife Service to place monarchs on its endangered list.
“We wouldn’t lose human crops or wild plants in particular if the monarchs disappeared,” Pelton said. “Milkweed is linked to healthy landscapes, and it’s linked to healthy floodplains, which means that our rivers are doing well,” he told AFP.
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