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SFU professor launches study to protect monarch butterfly population

Written by: Karissa Ketter, News Writer  PhD candidate Rodrigo Solis-Sosa and his team have launched conservation efforts to primarily  protect the eastern monarch butterfly species on North America’s east coast. Their research focuses on testing different types of milkweed plant restoration along key migration patterns. They’ve found that restoring milkweed growth along the midwest of the United States is the most effective for encouraging population growth, as monarchs are bred in that area. This is to prevent the eastern population from declining as much as its western counterpart. “The monarch only can lay eggs on [milkweed], so if we lose…

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