How Mexico’s conservation work brought monarchs back from the brink

How Mexico’s conservation work brought monarchs back from the brink

BY THE OPTIMIST DAILY EDITORIAL TEAM Every fall, tens of millions of monarch butterflies travel nearly 3,000 miles from Canada, through the United States, and into the forests of western Mexico. They arrive like a living orange blanket, covering entire trees. This winter, there were noticeably more of them. New figures released by WWF Mexico show that the area occupied by monarchs expanded to 7.24 acres (2.93 hectares) of forest, up from 4.42 ac…