Tag: Center for Biological Diversity
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Genetically Engineered Crops Threaten Monarchs
In the past 20 years, the widespread planting of genetically engineered crops in the Midwestern United States has precipitated the widespread loss of more than 90 percent of monarch butterflies. Like the honeybee, the monarch is a modern “canary in the cornfield,” an environmental indicator and crucial pollinator. Now a coalition of the Center for…