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Action 1:
Issue a proclamation to raise awareness about the decline of the monarch butterfly and the species’ need for habitat. This proclamation must incorporate a focus on monarch conservation.
Action 2:
Launch or maintain a public communication effort to encourage residents to plant monarch gardens at their homes or in their neighborhoods. (If you have community members who speak a language other than English, we encourage you to also communicate in that language; Champion Pledges must communicate in that language.)
Upload any relevant documents, images, or other attachments related to your effort on this action.
Please describe the methods of public communication below (e.g., printed materials, social media, print media).
Action 3:
Engage with community garden groups and urge them to plant native milkweeds and nectar-producing plants.
Action 7:
Engage with developers, planners, landscape architects, and other community leaders and organizers engaged in planning processes to identify opportunities to create monarch habitat.
Action 8:
Create a community-driven educational conservation strategy, initiative, or practice that focuses on and benefits local, underserved residents.
Action 14:
Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
Action 15:
Launch or maintain an outdoor education program(s) (e.g., at schools, after-school programs, community centers and groups) that builds awareness and creates habitat by engaging students, educators, and the community in planting native milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Schoolyard Habitats program and Monarch Mission curriculum).
Action 16:
Earn or maintain recognition for being a wildlife-friendly city by participating in other wildlife and habitat conservation efforts (i.e., National Wildlife Federation’s Community Wildlife Habitat program).
Action 18:
Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
Action 19:
Add or maintain native milkweed and nectar-producing plants in gardens in the community.
Action 20:
Launch, expand, or continue an invasive species removal program that will support the re-establishment of native habitat for monarch butterflies and other pollinators.
Action 22:
Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
Action 24:
Change weed or mowing ordinances to allow for native prairie and plant habitats.
