Commentary: The parallel struggles of human and monarch migration
In July, the monarch butterfly was added by the International Union for Conservation of Nature to its red list of threatened species, a recognition that the insect’s continuing decline could lead to extinction. Though the monarch population increased 35% from December 2020 to December 2021, its numbers overall have been in steep decline for the last three decades. The IUCN listing is an alarm about the need to reassess monarch conservation policies across North America.
As a woman born in Mexico and now living and teaching in Canada, I know that nothing is ever simple for
