Monarch Joint Venture awards $400,000 to fund monarch butterfly and pollinator conservation projects across the U.S. including Wild Ones’ “Wild for Monarchs” Program
Bees and other pollinators critical to global food security are disappearing at an alarming rate; even the iconic monarch butterfly, beloved across its trinational North American range, has only a 10% chance of persisting above the extinction threshold over the next 30 years.
In order to protect monarchs and other pollinators from extinction, large-scale collaboration is the key; What’s most needed right now is a unified approach to conservation. The Monarch Joint Venture (MJV), a Saint Paul MN nonprofit, has been facilitating that unified approach since 2009, and manages a partnership of over 100 participating entities, including academic programs, governmental agencies, businesses, and NGOs. With the MJV Partner Grant Program, eighteen MJV partner organizations will launch or expand pollinator conservation projects across the country, making a significant contribution for pollinators.
Awarded in conjunction with the U.S. Forest Service International Programs, the MJV Partner Grant Program funds projects that support the conservation priorities of the MJV’s Monarch Conservation Implementation Plan, which was originally created as part of the 2015 National Strategy to Promote the Health of Honey Bees and other Pollinators. Grant projects focus on pollinator habitat conservation and restoration, education and outreach, and research and monitoring across the U.S.
Wild Ones was awarded $4,000 to encourage our 67 chapters and 19 seedlings located in 26 states as well as our 6,800+ nationwide members to continue their important role in monarch conservation in 2022 and 2023. MJV funding will be used to update Wild Ones’ Wild for Monarchs program content including the program’s web page, produce a 60-minute Wild for Monarchs presentation and publish quarterly monarch conservation-related articles in the Wild Ones Journal.
The critical declines in monarch butterfly and pollinator populations require an “all hands on deck” mobilization of conservationists, and there’s a place for everyone to do their part. The Partner Grant Program is just one of the MJV’s many national initiatives to protect the monarch, its trinational migration, and all pollinators. Please see the full list of grant recipients below. Full project descriptions here.
About the Monarch Joint Venture
The Monarch Joint Venture is a nonprofit organization building a national partnership of federal and state agencies, other nonprofits, community groups, businesses, and academic programs working together to conserve monarch butterflies and other pollinators. Habitat, education, research, and partnership are the four pillars of our work. Learn more at www.monarchjointventure.org