The numbers are in from this season’s butterfly count: once in the millions, now there are only 29,000 western monarch butterflies left in California.
That’s a 99% population decline of these essential pollinators. And we’re not only losing monarchs -- 40% of invertebrate pollinators are on the brink of extinction. If we lose them, it will be catastrophic for the ecosystems and food systems on which we rely.
And it’s all for the sake of corporate greed. Big Ag and fossil fuel corporations are driving butterfly decline through pesticide use, climate change, and habitat loss. One of the worst culprits is Bayer-Monsanto’s Roundup®, which is killing off young monarchs’ only food source, milkweed.
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