Monarchs Facing More Trouble
December 17, 2018
The number of monarch butterflies stopping this year at a prime California resting spot during their annual migration declined by 87% from last year, while a major way station in Texas may lose a huge chunk of its territory to the proposed border wall. Indeed, a leading expert on endangered species has argued in Issues that migratory creatures worldwide face an array of growing threats, including habitat destruction, overexploitation, and climate change, and that saving the great migrations is one of conservation’s most difficult challenges.