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Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate
Sirinathsinghji, Eva http://www.theecologist.org/News/news_analysis/2987317/monarch_butterfly_decline_can_only_be_stopped_by_a_ban_on_glyphosate.html
Publisher: The Ecologist
Date Written: 02/03/2016
Year Published: 2016
Resource Type: Article
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do.
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