In a go to coordinated by Nat Hab’s conservation journey associate, World Wildlife Fund, a TV crew from CBS Information 60 Minutes journeyed to Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve to doc the monarchs’ distinctive migration phenomenon and the work being executed to guard the forests the place they spend every winter. And through their journey, they interviewed Nat Hab’s very personal Courtroom Whelan!

An Expedition Chief who can also be our Chief Sustainability Officer, Courtroom’s Ph.D. analysis centered on monarchs, and he was on the bottom in Mexico to talk with the staff about this conservation achievement. Watch Courtroom focus on monarch conservation with Anderson Cooper on 60 Minutes:

In an thrilling latest discovery, the monarch butterfly inhabitants that migrates to Mexico’s Central Highlands practically doubled its numbers this yr! WWF, which displays the monarch inhabitants yearly together with the Mexican authorities, reported that the butterflies occupied 4.42 acres of forest through the 2024-2025 winter, a big enhance from the two.22 acres occupied the earlier winter.

This rebound is nice information certainly, however the monarchs aren’t “out of the woods”…They nonetheless face threats from local weather change and habitat destruction resulting from lack of milkweed, pesticide use and unlawful logging.

Each visitor who joins us on a Kingdom of the Monarchs journey or a Monarch Butterfly Photograph Expedition helps defend the butterflies by way of conservation journey, including financial worth to conserving monarchs and provoking native communities.

Watch the complete 60 Minutes protection right here: