How Saving Monarchs Can Save Our Communities

Due to many factors, including land development and changing weather patterns, many pollinators, especially the monarch butterfly, face population declines. For Monarchs, their decline is closely correlated with the decline of native milkweed. Accordingly, organizations like the Oklahoma Monarch & Pollinator Collaborative (Okies for Monarchs) address these issues through volunteer work and public education to empower and inspire people. In Chicago, Abigail Derby Lewis is the Conservation Tools Program Director in the Keller Science Action Center, a division dedicated to translating museum science into lasting results for conservation and cultural understanding. Her work as a conservation ecologist focuses on landscape conservation planning and climate change adaptation for urban nature.

Note that this video was filmed before COVID-19

Local Motives showcases local perspectives on the challenges and solutions associated with climate change. It is the production of two friends, Nate Murray and Cody Pfister, traveling across the 50 states seeking to establish an authentic and relatable bottom-up communication stream.

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[MikeHunt-wlye]

Hey, Chicago! My home city. Moved away to live closer to nature on the Fox River and plant milkweed. Now I can’t wait to visit the Field museum once the plants start blooming. Cheers!

[Merlincat]

Love that description of the multi-generational migration at the start of the video!

[oceancitynutrition]

This is so fascinating. I had no idea about any of this! Planting milkweed TODAY