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Click to watch monarch butterflies feeding on milkweed planted by the Battery Park City Authority to help them on their annual fall schlep from Canada to the mountains of Mexico.
The amazing migration of the monarchs has been seriously threatened by habitat loss, development, and pesticide use, and their numbers have declined substantially over the years.
In Lower Manhattan, weary monarchs have found respite in Hudson River Park, in Liberty Community Gardens, along the bike path of Battery Park City, and in the gardens of Battery Park — all places where kind-hearted gardeners have planted milkweed, the favored nourishment of the butterflies.
Thank you, kind-hearted gardeners. We must all do whatever little bit we can to hold back the wave of extinctions that is a hair’s breadth from taking the last of our monarchs.