{"id":197341,"date":"2022-07-26T18:29:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=197341"},"modified":"2022-07-26T18:29:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T12:59:16","slug":"migratory-monarch-butterflies-officially-declared-endangered-but-theres-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/migratory-monarch-butterflies-officially-declared-endangered-but-theres-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Migratory monarch butterflies officially declared \u2018endangered\u2019, but there\u2019s hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The post is based on the article<\/span><b> \u201c<\/b><b>Migratory monarch butterflies officially declared \u2018endangered\u2019, but there\u2019s hope<\/b><b>\u201d <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">published in<\/span><b> Down To Earth <\/b>on<b> 22nd July 2022.<\/b><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is the News?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migratory Monarch Butterflies as Endangered under IUCN Red List.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>What is a Migratory Monarch Butterfly?<\/b><\/h5>\n<figure id=\"attachment_197342\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197342\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-197342 \" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0.57454200_1658472677_istock-1210792722.jpg?resize=400%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Monarch butterfly\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0.57454200_1658472677_istock-1210792722.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0.57454200_1658472677_istock-1210792722.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/0.57454200_1658472677_istock-1210792722.jpg?resize=768%2C575&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197342\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Down To Earth<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Migratory Monarch Butterfly is a<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> subspecies of the monarch butterfly (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Danaus plexippus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They are <\/span><b>important pollinators <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and provide various ecosystem services such as maintaining the global food web.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>These butterflies follow a unique lifestyle: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They traverse the length and breadth of the American continent twice a year, feasting on nectar from a variety of flora. But they breed in only one particular plant \u2014 the milkweeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><b>Why has it been classified as Endangered?<\/b><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The population of this butterfly has declined 23-72% over the last decade.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Habitat destruction and climate change were the biggest contributors to this decline.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: The post is based on the article \u201cMigratory monarch butterflies officially declared \u2018endangered\u2019, but there\u2019s hope\u201d published in Down To Earth on 22nd July 2022. What is the News? The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has classified Migratory Monarch Butterflies as Endangered under IUCN Red List. What is a Migratory Monarch Butterfly?&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/migratory-monarch-butterflies-officially-declared-endangered-but-theres-hope\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Migratory monarch butterflies officially declared \u2018endangered\u2019, but there\u2019s hope<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,4182,9],"tags":[10504,10514],"class_list":["post-197341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-environment","category-public","tag-down-to-earth","tag-dte","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}