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U.S. wildlife group doles out $3.3M to help save monarch butterfly population
Published January 02, 2017
Stunning Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary in Mexico
Millions of monarchs migrate from the US and Canada to Mexico, a journey of 2,000 miles and more into a wooded land under attack by loggers in a region bloodied by drug traffickers.
A national wildlife group says it is doling out $3.3 million in grants as part of an initial push to stem the worrisome decline of monarch butterflies.
The 22 grants announced Monday by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation will be matched by more than $6.7 million from the recipients, who are in at least a dozen states.
The money is meant to restore up to 33,000 U.S. acres of habitat in areas identified by experts as key to monarch butterfly recovery.
The foundation says $1.2 million of Monday’s grants is from Monsanto. Critics have partly blamed that St. Louis-based agribusiness’ popular weed killer Roundup for knocking out monarch butterflies’ habitat.
Monsanto announced in March that it is committing $4 million to the effort.
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