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 | | PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAIME ROJO | | Who doesn’t love monarch butterflies? And who hasn’t been touched by decades of dire stories of population loss among several of the colorful insects?
A new study, using citizen scientist data, says numbers for North American monarch butterflies actually have been on the rise overall. The study, which drew on observations from more than 450 sites across 25 years, comes as the U.S. considers including monarchs as endangered species.
The study authors acknowledge their findings are controversial, particularly among groups that have raised money to protect the insect. “The monarch is the Bambi of the insect world. When people hear that the monarch is in trouble, they open up their purses,” says Andy Davis, an animal ecologist at the University of Georgia.
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| Butterfly heaven: Pictured at top, a cluster of monarchs at a reserve in the Mexican state of Michoacán, photographed by Nat Geo Explorer Jaime Rojo. Above, a butterfly opens her wings for the last time of the day, before finding her spot in the trunk covered with other butterflies that are getting ready to spend the night.
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| Morning calm: In the image above by Nat Geo Explorer Jun Michael Park, an ancient temple overlooks the Namhang Bridge and newer skyscrapers in Busan, South Korea. In Busan, travelers can experience contrast and the coexistence of the country’s past and present.
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| | | Explorer of the Year: The search for lost slave ships led Tara Roberts (above) on an extraordinary journey. The archaeological storyteller and diver wrote of the quest by Black divers to reclaim wreckage—and parts of their own ancestral heritage—for the March edition of National Geographic. She was the first Black woman Explorer to appear on the magazine’s cover. Yesterday, Roberts was named the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year. “This blows my inner 10-year-old's mind,” she told the National Geographic Explorers Festival. See the full announcement here—and hear her six-part podcast on the search. | | | |
 | | Writing [is] an act not only of remembrance but of social conscience, an act that binds the living to the dead forever. | | | | Hilton Als | Writer, author, Pulitzer Prize-winner for criticism
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| | | LGBTQ+ friendly: Spain has long been a welcoming destination for gay and lesbian travelers, thanks to its progressive laws and liberal attitudes (above, the El Carmel district of Barcelona). Inclusive travel has paid off for other cities as well, and others are taking note. “It happened with Ibiza, and now we’re seeing it with Mykonos—suddenly everyone’s going,” says Darren Burn, founder of travel company Out of Office. “It’s almost a question of ‘where will the gays go next?’” | | | |
Correction: In yesterday’s newsletter, we misstated the first name of a man who helped rescue a future Nobel Prize recipient from the Nazis ahead of World War II. His name is Barnet Yudin. Here is the story.
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