Fear not , monarch butterflies : Obama is flying in to the rescue . The White House has just unveil its newnational strategyto increase the monarch butterfly population through the creation of a “ butterfly corridor ” along Interstate main road 35 between Mexico and Minnesota .
" Patches of high - quality home ground that ’s rich in flowers and free of pesticide forming a corridor from Mexico to Canada will facilitate monarchs to find nectaring and rearing sphere as they travel , " Scott Hoffman Black , the executive conductor at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation , toldPublic Radio International .
Thecorridorwill be 2,400 kilometers long ( 1,500 miles ) and focus on the remarkable migratory nerve tract undertaken by monarch butterflies . These butterfly undergo what is known as a ‘ multi - generational migration’—where they stay in Mexico during the wintertime , then travel to the southern U.S. to lay their eggs and die . The young butterfly continue the journeying to northern U.S. and Canada .
The report lays out a program to not only protect the sovereign butterflies , but bees and other pollinators that are crucial to the American agricultural economy and environment . The number of monarch butterfly has been declining over the last few decades and thoughresearchers reporteda 70 % increase last class , the number is still the second low since recording began in 1993 .
Since 1990 , the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimate that970 million milkweed butterfly butterflies have been lost . Intensive agriculture and the going of nectar - producing flower and milkweed are thought to be the cause of the population decline .
The theme states that the corridor conditions “ constitute large land acreage on a cumulative basis , are generally keep in sunny area with low vegetation tiptop ( idealistic pollinator habitat ) , and often extend for considerable distances , thereby potentially act as corridors for species movement and adjustment to clime variety . ”
U.S. agencies will have to align with Mexican and Canadian partners to ensure the project is implemented successfully . The Pollinator Health Task Forcehope to increasethe monarch butterfly universe from 56.5 million to 225 million by 2020 .
