Events took place across Canada on Saturday to raise awareness on how to curb the declining monarch population. In 2013, the eastern population of monarch butterflies dropped by 95 per cent, resulting in the smallest recorded population of the species since the mid‐1990s. Taylor is the director of Monarch Watch and professor emeritus of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Kansas. (Monarch Watch )Monarchs seen on the ground collecting water from dew-covered grass. (Monarch Watch)

Source: CBC News August 23, 2020 07:52 UTC