It's fall and time for a new round of Monarch Extinction press releases.

[Paul Cherubini]

In past years, usually in the fall or winter, Dr's Lincoln Brower, Karen                                        
Oberhauser and/or Chip Taylor have made dire predictions, about the                               
potential impacts of logging in Mexico, Bt corn, tourist trampling, butterfly                                   
releases, mosquito spraying etc, on migratory monarchs, but the migrants                                   
continue be as abundant as ever.  This fall, Dr. Oberhauser has been                                                  
talking to the press about an imminent new extinction threat:
                                                                                                                                                                                                    
USA TODAY:
http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2003-11-11-monarch-climate_x.htm
                                                                                                                                                                                              
CLIMATE changes may drown out monarch butterflies CBC News, Canada
MINNEAPOLIS - A wetter climate is expected in Mexico in the next 50 years,
which could do in monarch butterflies. Millions of colourful ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/10/monarchs031110>
                                                                                                                                                              
BBC News, UK
Monarch butterflies may lose their winter habitat within 50 years
because of climate change, say researchers. Monarchs migrate thousands ...
Monarch Butterfly May Face Climate Threat - Newsday Climate
change in winter home may endanger Monarch butterfly, ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3257917.stm>

MONARCH Butterfly May Face Climate Threat Fredericksburg.com, VA
Monarch butterflies, which journey hundreds of miles to spend the winter
in a mountain forest in Mexico, may be endangered within 50 years
because a changing ...
<http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/apmethods/apstory?urlfeed=D7UO1B401.xml>

CLIMATE threatens butterfly's 2,000-mile migration Independent, UK
  ... Oberhauser added: "The relationship between winter mortality and
 weather conditions suggests climate-change may have important impacts on
 monarch butterflies.". ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_medical/story.jsp?story=462600>

MONARCH butterflies face new threat from global climate change
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription), MN For eons monarch butterflies
from the northern United States have migrated by the millions to hang from
trees in great orange clouds high in the mountains of ...
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/4204668.html>

Paul Cherubini

 
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