To: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Add your name: Save the monarch butterfly
As millions of monarch butterflies begin their fall migration, this beautiful creature needs our help. Tell the U.S, Fish and Wildlife Service to protect the monarch butterfly by declaring it a threatened species.
Why is this important?
Since 1990, monarch populations have crashed with nearly 1 billion of the butterflies dying.
This decline isn't due to natural causes; The Washington Post has called it “nothing short of a massacre.”
How so? Pollution-driven climate change is part of the problem. But we're also allowing the destruction of the monarchs' habitat through the rapid acceleration in use of Monsanto's toxic Roundup and Roundup Ready crops.
As the monarchs begin their 3,000-mile fall migration, we’re joining together to call on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to declare the monarch butterfly a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.
If we succeed, we'll give the monarchs more than a fighting chance. When it comes to preventing extinction, the Endangered Species Act has a 99% success rate. But we have to act now.