In a go to coordinated by Nat Hab’s conservation journey accomplice, 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 carried out to guard the forests the place they spend every winter. And through their journey, they interviewed Nat Hab’s very personal Court docket Whelan!

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

In an thrilling current discovery, the monarch butterfly inhabitants that migrates to Mexico’s Central Highlands almost doubled its numbers this 12 months! WWF, which displays the monarch inhabitants yearly together with the Mexican authorities, reported that the butterflies occupied 4.42 acres of forest throughout the 2024-2025 winter, a big enhance from the two.22 acres occupied the earlier winter.

This rebound is sweet information certainly, however the monarchs aren’t “out of the woods”…They nonetheless face threats from local weather change and habitat destruction on account of 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 galvanizing native communities.

Watch the complete 60 Minutes protection right here: