Monsanto’s glyphosate wiping out Monarch butterflies; population down 74 percent in California

‘Recent research has pinpointed Monsanto’s glyphosate-based herbicide, Roundup, as one of the main contributing factors to the drastic population declines experienced by monarch butterflies in the past 20 years.
Since 1997, monarch butterfly populations have decreased by a staggering 74 percent in California, home to one of the butterfly’s most highly populated migrating grounds. A crucial natural pollinator of North American crops, the world cannot afford to lose these marvelous orange and black six-legged creatures.
Aside from excessive commercial development of forested lands, the use of glyphosate-based herbicides has been a large reason for monarch butterfly population declines.’
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