Monarch butterfly counts in California
| 1997: | 1,200,000 |
|---|---|
| 2017: | 195,000 |
| 2020: | 30,000 |
| 2021: | 1,914 |
A 99.85% loss. “A migration of millions of monarchs reduced to two thousand in a few decades.” Source: Western Monarch Population Closer to Extinction as the Wait Continues for Monarchs’ Protection Under the Endangered Species Act.