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B) We considered existing research on the benefits and costs of captive-breeding, rearing, disease, citizen science, and environmental education to determine what level of captive-rearing would qualify as large-scale rearing and have the potential to negatively impact monarch populations.

C) Our analysis concluded that that the overall impact of collecting, possessing, captively rearing, releasing, and selling fewer than 250 individual monarchs at one location or facility (e.g., home, botanical garden, school, or business) is not expected to negatively affect conservation and recovery efforts for the monarch butterfly. If handling greater than 250 monarchs in a given year, you will need to apply for a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

D) In some cases, state natural resource agencies and local governments have their own monarch butterfly rules and regulations. This can include prohibitions on importation and/or interstate movement, captively rearing, and releasing monarch butterflies. You may need a state permit for scientific collection or educational activities. Please check with your state-specific and local agencies for more information.

E) A permit from USDA-Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is required for the importation, interstate movement, and environmental release of butterflies, including monarchs. In addition, APHIS does not allow the movement of monarchs across the Continental Divide for environmental release. 

In Canada you can raise up to 60 monarchs per season

with permit

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Craig Oveson, AKA CraigTheButterflyman.com , is a well known monarch butterfly and pollinator scientist, conservationist, and educator. At the www.CraigtheButterflyMan.com website-Ebook , we offer programs that you can be part of that will teach you how you can help increase monarch and pollinator populations..  This website-EBook, these programs, and our educational "groups",  are free of charge. Depending on how involved you want to be in our cause and movement, you may want to purchase some of the supplies we recommend you to use, although it only takes things you probably already have around your house to participate in some of our programs. 

Restoring the monarch butterfly migration and other pollinator populations  would be as easy as banning the use of most pesticides and herbicides like glyphosate that's found in Round Up and other brands. Our government has the power to ban them. We should help, although our landscapes will start to recover as soon as the use of these products is banned Of course, we would have a more healthy food supply  and many more monarchs and pollinators to enjoy.

Our current United States administration has the ability to ban these products. The new administration has made it clear they will ban these chemicals that are unsafe for us and our wildlife. Please watch the video here to find out more:

 https://youtu.be/AUXozL5KU4o?si=zUsadOmEx1T4Z91k