Giving Tuesday to Spring 2026: Our Monarch Migration Donation Campaign Begins!

Native Monarchs is excited to announce our special Giving Tuesday Donation Campaign, launched in honor of the critical Monarch Butterfly Migration Season. This limited-time campaign begins on Giving Tuesday and will continue through the end of the Spring 2026 monarch migration season.

Choose from two meaningful ways to support monarch conservation and receive a Thank You Gift courtesy of our conservation partner, Monarch Botanika, who has generously donated their premium skincare sets exclusively for this cause.

It’s Beauty to Save a Species.

• $75 Donation — Receive ONE (1) Monarch Botanika Premium Skincare Kit
The only skincare brand made with cold-pressed Milkweed Seed Oil, created from seeds that cannot be planted and never taken from monarch habitat.

• $150 “KOGO” Donation — Receive TWO (2) Kits
Keep One, Give One — and share the gift of conservation this holiday and migration season.

100% of all proceeds support Native Monarchs in creating, restoring, and protecting essential monarch butterfly habitat.

Join us in making a difference — and give the gift of conservation.

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CRISIS

The brilliantly colorful and majestic monarch butterfly is one of the natural world’s greatest wonders and a true American icon. Weighing less than a dime, the monarch completes an extraordinary 3,000-mile migration—a journey spanning multiple generations and relying on a fragile chain of habitats across North America.

Today, that migration is in serious danger. In just two decades, monarch populations have collapsed by more than 90 percent, pushing this iconic species to the brink of extinction. Without immediate action, one of the most remarkable migrations on Earth could disappear within our lifetime.

The primary cause of this decline is widespread habitat loss at every stage of the monarch’s life cycle. Breeding grounds have been fragmented by development, agriculture, and pesticide use, drastically reducing native milkweed and nectar plants essential for reproduction and survival. At the same time, critical overwintering habitat along the California coast is being destroyed. Western monarchs depend on a small network of protected groves—largely decades-old eucalyptus, along with native pines, cypress, and redwoods—that create the microclimate needed to survive winter storms, cold temperatures, and high winds. As these trees are removed or severely pruned due to development pressure or safety concerns, monarchs lose the very conditions that keep them alive—accelerating a decline we can no longer afford to ignore.

The Crisis
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A Disappearing

HABITAT

Milkweed (Asclepias) is a critical habitat in every stage of the Monarch butterfly’s life and it is in rapid decline, dramatically and dangerously reducing the Monarch population; leaving them at risk of extinction. The good news is, we can help!

The Vision
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Research

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Cultivation

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Restoration

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Conservation

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How you can

HELP

Whether you are a land owner, educator, business, or activist - you can help by valuing and protecting Milkweed along the Monarch’s migration route.

By making a donation to our program you can help us research, plant, and cultivate additional habitat.

Help Today
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Partnering for

SUCCESS

Success doesn’t happen overnight, and it certainly doesn’t happen alone. If you own a golf course, corporation with open space, or privately-owned land parcels; or are a grower, nursery owner or can help our mission, we need your help saving the Monarch from extinction.

Let's Partner!
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I first became interested in monarch butterflies about 25 or 30 years ago in my backyard garden. The butterflies were just coming fast and furious. Western Monarch has had a 99% population decline since the 1980s. I wanted to take additional steps to try to help save them. So this was actually a pilot program for monarchs in the rough.

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The golf course was nice enough to give me a parcel of land where it was an out of play area. Nothing was growing here, so they gave this to me to create a monarch and pollinator habitat.


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A lot of volunteers came out planted a lot of plants, including milkweed, nectar, plants and a succulents and drought tolerant plants that we also put in here. So we were able to buy mature plants, mature milkweed, native milkweed.


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We were doing some experimentation with the different types of milkweed that we could offer. The activity right now is actually blowing me away, but I'm really excited about in this habitat is I think that we've taken kind of the perfect combination of drought tolerant plants like succulents, milkweed, nectarine plants and everything that a monarch butterfly and all


00:01:25:16 - 00:01:39:06
The pollinators would just love and put it all together in one place. This basically surpassed any expectation that I have. You can do this in residential areas as well. It doesn't have to be all native wear. It sometimes looks like a jungle.


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You can have organization, but you can have the highest in the conservation. I think that's possible. And you know what? It was a lot of hard work, but I would rather be doing this than sitting behind any computer any day.

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