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Monarch Project 2007-2008 » Monarch News
Monarch News Monarch Butterfly News This part of our website will attempt to update Monarch
Monarch Migration Takes Flight 9/23/08 South Jersey NBC Channel 40 Learn about the Cape May New Jersey Monitoring Project and the fact that there are less Monarchs in Cape May this year than there were last year. Find out what's to blame. Hot Weather Brings Monarchs To New England 6/11/08 BOSTON (WBZ) ? The heat wave was pretty miserable, but it had one pretty side effect -- Monarch butterflies arrived here in New England. New Film Brings Monarchs into Focus Discovery News Great footage of Vico Guttierrez and his documentary Papalotzin as he flew his ultra-light Monarch he flew from Canada to Mexico to bring awareness of the plight of the Monarch butterflies. Monarch Butterflies tagged for Their Journey to Mexico Discovery News Great footage of 4th graders and their teacher tagging and releasing Monarchs in the Ozark Mountains 9/25/07 Loggers Destroying Monarch's Mexico Home Associate Press 3/10/08 Saving the Monarch Butterfly 2-Part news report from KXAN-TV, Austin Texas about logging destruction in the Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary of Sierra Chincua The Journey North is about to begin. 3/6/08 . Follow along as the Monarch's begin leaving the Mexican overwintering sites for their Journey North where they will attempt to continue a 10,000 year old history of migration. Satellite Images of the deforestation in the Mexican Monarch Biosphere Reserve from The Daily Green, the Consumer's Guide to the Green Revolution 3/7/08 NASA Earth Observatory Satellite Images of Deforestation in the Monarch Biosphere Reserves in the Mexican State of Michoacan Monarchs Are On Their Way 3/13/08 On Wednesday of this week the Monarch Colony at El Rosario broke up and began their northern migration. By day's end they filled the skies of Angangueo, a village just a few miles down the mountain. Follow the news... The 12th annual Symbolic Monarch Butterfly Migration is underway! 3/21/08 The real monarch butterflies are migrating north from Mexico right now, and our Symbolic Monarchs are coming back too. All 70,000+ symbolic butterflies are heading to Minnesota where they will be prepared for the final leg of their journey back to classrooms across the US and Canada. Please mark your calendars for the "Symbolic Monarch Homecoming" May 5, 2008. Also check out the photo galleries of the winter in the Monarch Sanctuary region in Mexico. See how the school children there take care of paper Monarchs from the US and Canada. Monarch Watch Monarch Migration Weekly Update 3/27/08 The Monarchs have made their way out of Mexico and are flooding into the southern United States looking for milkweed to lay their eggs on, but a prolonged drought in the southern States has caused the growing season in the south to be delayed. Milkweed that the Monarchs depend on to lay their eggs is difficult to find and as the Monarchs fly further north into Arkansas and Oklahoma they are finding even less milkweed and cooler weather. Follow the Monarch migration maps and Read more... Monarchs' Mysterious Migration to Mexico 3/24/08 Even a newspaper in Pakistan has been reporting on the North American Monarch Butterfly Migration and how the Monarchs' age old migration is being threatened by human activity. America's Western Monarch Major Over-Wintering Habitats News on the status of the Western Monarch population. Only 1% of the North American Monarch population live West of the Rocky Mountains. Find out how their habitat and survival is at risk. GetAnswers From the Monarch Butterfly Expert Spring 2008 Dr. Karen Oberhauser is well known and respected among students, teachers, and her scientist-colleagues alike. Dr. Oberhauser has been studying Monarchs for over 20 years. She teaches and conducts her research at the University of Minnesota and her web sites, "Monarchs in the Classroom" and "Monarch Lab" provide Monarch butterfly education and outreach across North America. Volunteers can help with Dr. Oberhauser's research this spring by participating in the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project: http://www.mlmp.org/ SEE ANSWERS FROM THE EXPERT, Dr. Karen Oberhauser Monarch Butterflies Headed This Way 3/31/08 The Galveston (Texas) Daily News - News from along the migration route in Texas. Habitat Destruction May Wipe Out Monarch Butterfly Migration, Researcher Says 4/1/08Habitat Destruction May Wipe Out Monarch Butterfly Migration, Researcher Says 4/1/08 University of Kansas - Deforestation in Mexico could bring an end to one of nature's most incredible wonders. Monarch Migration Guided by Monarch Butterfly Inner Clock Discovery News New science sheds the light on just why the Monarch butterfly migrates across North America to Mexico every year. 1/9/08
Mr. Szuszkowski's 5th Grade
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Butterfly News. Every day it seems that there is news coming out of the Mexican Monarch Sanctuaries about the Monarch populations and people are becoming more aware of how human activity affects the Monarch Butterflies. Hopefully as we learn more about the Monarchs we will become more aware of what we can do to help these fragile creatures that now depend on us for their survival.