City Dwellers Could Be Key to Saving Monarch Butterflies From Extinction

By Yessenia Funes

Image: Abigail Derby Lewis (The Field Museum)

Monarchs in Chicago!

Since 2014, conservationists have been trying to secure protections for the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act. The butterfly—whose signature black-and-white speckled orange wings are impossible to miss—has seen its numbers drop by 80 percent in North America over the last 20 years.

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