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100 Million Milkweed Seeds!

10/16/2019

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Minneapolis, MN — October 15, 2019 — The Save Our Monarchs Foundation is devoted to saving the monarch butterfly from extinction by promoting the planting of milkweed across the US.

The good news is that in 2018-2019 the migration from Mexico to the US was up 140% over the previous year, the first time since 1992 that there has been an increase.

We would like to offer our sincere gratitude to everyone across North America who has rallied to this cause, planting their own pollinator gardens and especially the thousands of participants in Save Our Monarchs who had a direct hand in the repopulating of the monarch.

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In five years, Save Our Monarchs has distributed over 100 MILLION milkweed seeds, which contributed significantly to the recent increase in the monarch population.

​Monarch butterflies can only survive by eating the leaves of the milkweed plant. The population of these plants is down by over 90% since 1992. In that same period of time, the monarch butterfly has also declined by 92% according to experts.
Further, since the early nineties, monarch colonies overwintering in Mexico occupied about 52 acres. By the winter of 2017, monarchs only occupied 1.6 acres, due to the loss of habitat stemming from land development and the widespread spraying of weed killer on the fields where they live.
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Much more info is available at the
 Save Our Monarchs website
Facebook.com/SaveOurMonarchs
OR
Contact SaveOurMonarch's director, Ward Johnson at:
Ward@SaveOurMonarchs.org  or 612-356-4527


Please note that all of Save Our Monarchs activities are possible only through donations from people like you.

So please help support our efforts by donating online or by mail:
SaveOurMonarchs Foundation
PO Box 390135
​Minneapolis, MN 55439.



We thank you and the Monarchs thank you as well!

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    Rebecca Chandler
    Garden Educator, Naturalist and Ethnobotanist

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