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 ...
Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...
In 2023, more than 16,000 butterflies were counted at one local grove. The most recent count was a tiny fraction of that.