Habitat loss, climate change threaten monarch butterfly
An insect species which can evoke childhood memories is in trouble and has just been added to the Red List of Threatened Species compiled by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.
The orange-and-black migratory monarch butterfly population has dropped 95 percent from the 1980s to 2020.
Rebecca Quiñonez-Piñon, chief monarch recovery strategist for the National…