The World Wildlife Fund, which monitors Monarch Butterfly migration, announced that this year’s migration covered about 10 acres in Mexico, about three times larger than last year.
One reason is that the area of milkweeds, on which Monarchs depend, increased by about 250,000 acres last year. To put that in perspective, however, we had lost over 7 million acres, mostly because of Roundup Ready crops produced by Monsanto.
Nonetheless, the increase is impressive. People seem to be getting the message about milkweeds. Let them grow. Let them flourish. And we must continue to help the milkweeds. It’s not as though the Monarchs are back to where they were–at one time they covered about 45 acres in Mexico.
By the way, isn’t Leap Day a fun thing? It’s like getting a bonus day in our lives, although I pretty much wasted mine. (The day, not the life.)
I find it interesting that leap day gives all the Presidential candidates another day to campaign. Like the season isn't long enough!
ReplyDeleteIt really is unfortunate that leap year falls on the same year as the Presidential election. Like it's not long enough already.
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