ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author provide some context on what used to be the life of their species including details of their annual migration and the changes to their habitat in North America. They discuss the impact of the regulatory environment on the continuation of their way of life. Monocultures by their very nature of representing uniformity without diversity are vulnerable to ecological catastrophes while compromising the survival of nature’s diversity by promoting large scale species extinction. An area of 56,259 hectares is protected as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico and its core area of about 13,551 ha includes their wintering forest habitat where we migrate each fall from Canada and the United States to the states of Michoacan and Estado de Mexico. As a result of the growth of industrial agriculture across the United States, the habitat of the author species has been significantly reduced and degraded.
