FOR AMERICA’S most beloved insect, the road to recovery is long and windy.

The incomparably iconic monarch butterfly, which graces gardens from Canada to Mexico, has faced steep population declines over the past two decades. The migratory monarch population has flirted with collapse in recent years, plummeting 96% from 1 billion butterflies in 1996 to a mere 33 million in 2013.

But high in the remote mountain forests of central Mexico, researchers are beginning to detect signs of a monarch recovery.

In 2015, researchers recorded 56 million butterflies, a 70% increase from the year before. Mexican officials say they expect the monarch population to further increase two to four fold by winter’s end in 2016. If their predictions are correct, monarch numbers could reach levels not seen since 2010, when 200 million monarchs spent the winter in Mexico’s mountainous oyamel forest.



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that is very good news!!!!

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Wow, didn't know they were so endangered. When I was in high school, my school was on the direct migration route for the Monarch butterflies and you could see hundreds passing through. Needless to say that was a very popular science project every year.