*10 December 2007* – Approximately 40 Monarch Butterfly experts from across Mexico, the United States, and Canada recently traveled to Morelia, Mexico to develop a North American Monarch Butterfly Conservation Plan. The effort, led by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, included presentations and discussions of the ecological, economical, and sociological threats to the North American Monarch Butterfly population across its wintering, migration, and breeding ranges. The plan is expected to be made publicly available by mid-April, 2008. -- Kent McFarland Vermont Center for Ecostudies PO Box 420 • Norwich, VT 05055 802.649.1431 http://www.vtecostudies.org/