Monarch Joint Venture Blog
Western Monarch Count Reports More Monarchs than 2015, but Numbers Remain Low
The 2016 Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count population survey has reported 298,464 western overwintering monarchs from 253 monitored overwintering sites across the California coast. Read More
MJV Welcomes Energy Resources Center to Fuel Monarch Conservation
The Energy Resources Center of the University of Illinois - Chicago has been performing research and outreach related to pollinator habitat on working landscapes for nearly two years, including facilitating the Rights of Way as Habitat Working Group Read More
The Next Generation of Monarch Conservation: Creating FFA Monarch Gardens
In 2016, the MJV, Monarch Lab and USFWS' NCTC partnered with FFA chapters and other community partners to help create more habitat to support monarchs and other pollinators. Read More
Prairie Restorations & Monarch Butterflies
The need for monarch habitat restoration is great. But it's important to ensure habitat restoration is based on good understanding of how seeds in the ground translate to plants on the landscape. Find out how the UMN Monarch Lab is doing this research. Read More
New Publication Reveals Birthplaces of Eastern Monarchs
A recently published study (Flockhart et al. 2017) builds on previous work describing the natal origin of eastern overwintering monarchs, and has new implications for monarch conservation. Read More