Butterfly Pavilion and the Government of Mexico are excited to announce a newly funded project to lead a critical effort to safeguard monarchs and their migration by restoring their wintering grounds in Mexico’s Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Monarchs, known for their extraordinary migration of over 3,000 miles from Canada and the northern United States to winter in Mexico, are facing an unprecedented threat from climate change, deforestation, and habitat loss. As a result, the population of overwintering Monarchs has declined by nearly 80% in just 30 years. Mexico’s Oyamel fir forest, which shelters Monarchs in the winter, has become one of North America's most endangered ecosystems. Supported by a grant from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ Conservation Grant Fund (CGF), Butterfly Pavilion’s new project aims to restore Monarch habitats in Mexico by replanting 100,000 native Oyamel fir trees in to create safe winter havens and help secure the migration for future generations o...