Monarchs in Mexico

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141 Bayview Rd - Ottawa 45.4074977

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Date/Time

Date(s) - 27/01/2015

7:30 pm - 9:00 pm

Tom Brown Arena

141 Bayview Rd

Ottawa





Dr. jean Lauriault will discuss the biology and conservation of the monarch and its migration.He will present numerous slides and share his experiences in ecotourism traveling to the winter Mexican quarters of the monarch butterfly. He will discuss the changes in the size of the monarch overwintering eastern population. On average, there are approximately 50 million monarchs per hectare in 12 sanctuaries. Over the 20 years of monitoring, the population has fluctuated greatly, from ~18 to 2 hectares. The exact cause of these fluctuations is still unknown. The monarch butterfly is a good example of how complicated it is to implement a conservation plan over a migratory route extending over three countries.

M. Jean Lauriault is an Environmental Specialist, a Canadian Museum of Nature Associate and the Author of the Identification Guide to the Trees of Canada. He has traveled to México for the past 18 years to study the monarch butterfly and participated in the development of the North American Monarch Conservation Plan. He has worked on the production of a number of videos of his work with the monarch for the media. Through ecotourism in México and Canada, Jean has reached numerous people and made them aware of the importance of the conservation of the Monarch. He also collaborates with government agencies in the development of the Canadian Management Plan for the Monarch and on a distribution map of 14 Canadian species of native milkweed. In addition, he is a teacher trainer for monarch biology and conservation. Jean has participated in several documentaries on the monarch. During his trip to México, winter 2009, a team of Humanima (TV5, RDI, Radio Canada) met him to produce a 30 minutes HD video ‘’ Le monarque voyageur’’. The show was released on January 2010.