How you can help save the monarch butterfly — and the planet | Mary Ellen Hannibal

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Monarch butterflies are dying at an alarming rate around the world — a looming extinction that could also put human life at risk. But we have just the thing to help save these insects, says author Mary Ellen Hannibal: citizen scientists. Learn how these grassroots volunteers are playing a crucial role in measuring and rescuing the monarch's dwindling population — and how you could join their ranks to help protect nature. (You'll be in good company: Charles Darwin was a citizen scientist!)

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26 Comments on How you can help save the monarch butterfly — and the planet | Mary Ellen Hannibal

  1. Ted talks never fail to inspire me. Thank you so much. I’ve recently started overcoming my fears and finally started my own YouTube adventure, so love and support would bd appreciated. I’m a med student from India. Good bless you.

    • Sames, I love my babies and I have other species now too.
      To get into it (to answer the other comments) find native milkweed to your area, get a couple, sit them outside and wait, they’ll come along eventually. Milkweed is a host plant AND a nectar plant (think house and food) so it’s good to have a mix of both host plants (milkweed) and nectar plants (food for butterflies)

  2. 2:11 – Insect life is at the very foundation of our life-support systems. We can’t lose these b̶i̶t̶c̶h̶e̶s̶̶ … insects.

  3. Spread SARS-COV2 and save tze planet! The fear to cach COVID-19 has done more for the reduction of CO2 emissions than anything humans did. We need more self-isolation and lockdown. Humans are the biggest virus and we kill the planet we live from and on.

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