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Migratory monarch butterflies
July 27 , 2022
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- The migratory monarch butterfly, has been classified ‘endangered’ in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species.
- It is a sub-species of the monarch butterfly that travels around 4,000 kilometres across America each year.
- The number of the western monarchs, which live west of the Rocky Mountains, reduced 99.9 per cent.
- Its Population is falling to only 1,914 butterflies in 2021 from 10 million in the 1980s.
- The population of the eastern monarchs that migrate from eastern United States and Canada also shrunk 84 per cent from 1996-2014.
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