This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...
The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...
In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.
Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...