If you are concerned about monarchs and wish to assist with the efforts to conserve monarch habitat, you could get involved with one or more of the following programs:
Monarch Watch's Monarch Waystation Program
Monarchs need our help! To offset the loss of milkweeds and nectar sources we need to create, conserve, and protect milkweed/monarch habitats. We need you to help us and help monarchs by creating "Monarch Waystations" (monarch habitats) in home gardens, at schools, businesses, parks, zoos, nature centers, along roadsides, and on other unused plots of land. Without a major effort to restore milkweeds to as many locations as possible, the monarch population is certain to decline to extremely low levels.
Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation
The Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation (MBSF) is working to develop a model economic program by working with one ejido, a group of local families, that owns land in the Sierra Chincua sanctuary, the largest and most pristine Monarch overwintering area in Mexico. MBSF will tie economic aid, in the form of educational and economic development, to decreasing the number of trees cut in the forest.
Michoacan Reforestation Fund
The Michoacan Reforestation Fund and La Cruz Habitat Protection Project work to protect monarch butterfly habitat and improve the well-being of Mexican communities through reforestation. We provide high quality pine and oyamel fir trees to highland communities in the Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico.
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