The Fish and Wildlife Service will be partnering with a number of groups, including the National Wildlife Foundation, to raise awareness of the butterfly’s problems. The Fish and Wildlife Service is beginning the effort with $1.2 million to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation’s Monarch Conservation Fund. It will also provide $2 million in funding for conservation projects.
The news was announced in an agency release.
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“We must build on this momentum, and I will continue to call on the public and private sectors to join together in the effort to protect the monarch butterfly.”
