the future of the monarch butterfly
which performs the greatest migration of any insect on the planet. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/homero-aridjis/mexico-monarch-survival_b_6501656.html?utm_hp_ref=world
I wrote about the race to find the wintering grounds of the monarchs, which Homer Aridjis recounts, in Vanity Fair http://blog.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/?p=3727
Today, the milkweed in North America’s heartland is being snuffed by pesticides. Only three million monarchs made it to the volcanoes of Michoacan, Mexico, …Read More
appeal to three presidents to save the monarch butterfly gets promising response
Betty Aridjis writes :
Our letter addressed to Presidents Obama and Peña Nieto and Prime Minister Harper received excellent coverage in the Mexican and international media, and we were successful in getting the Monarch butterfly on the North American Leaders’ Summit agenda.
Here is the relevant paragraph from the joint statement released at the end of the …Read More
The monarchs are in serious decline
see this distressing article by the Mexican poet and long-time champion of the butterflies Homer Aridjis and Lincoln Brower, whose race to find the winter hibernaculum of the monarchs in Mexico I wrote about in Vanity Fair in 1999 (it’s posted in the butterflies section to the left, second story). Please read this and pass …Read More
the future of the monarch butterflies is not looking good
Back in l999, I wrote a piece about the race to find the wintering grounds of the monarch butterflies, which was as heated as the race to discover the source of the Nile in the nineteenth century. https://www.dispatchesfromthevanishingworld.com/pastdispatches/monarch/monarch1.html
At that point there were two threats to the survival of the monarchs and their epic migration …Read More