On our changing and warming planet, the Western Monarch is suddenly on the verge of extinction.

In the 1990s, hundreds of millions of monarchs made the epic flight each fall from the northern plains of the U.S. and Canada to sites in the Oyamel fir forests in central Mexico, and more than a million monarchs overwintered in forested groves on the California coast. Now, researchers and community scientists estimate that only a fraction of the population remains—a decline of approximately 80% has been seen in central Mexico and a decline of 99% in coastal California. The Monarchs need our help and we are trying to do our part by planting pollinator and nectar plants integral to their tenuous survival.