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the vast majority of the population growth is in places that have never seen this species; overly-general advice is not going to solve this particular problem
by mistrial9 4y ago
the vast majority of the population growth is in places that have never seen this species; overly-general advice is not going to solve this particular problem
- melling 4y agoStrange, the article specifically mentions urban development. Where is the disconnect? “by between 22% and 72% over the past decade. Legal and illegal logging and deforestation to make space for agriculture and urban development has already destroyed substantial areas of the butterflies’ winter shelter in Mexico and California, while pesticides and herbicides used in intensive agriculture across the range kill butterflies and milkweed, the host plant that the larvae of the monarch butterfly feed on.” The population of Mexico has doubled since 1980 and the US has gone from 227 million to 340 million people