Community Profile

Pledge Status

Request for More Info

Pledge Date

Wednesday, February 7, 2024

Program Year

2024

Links and Uploads

View Links and Uploads

Action Item Report

Download Report

City of Topeka

Topeka, KS

Mike Padilla

Mayor

Pledge Summary

The City of Topeka is the capital city of Kansas, with a population of approximately 126,000 residents. Topeka is supportive of its wild places and the wild animals and plants that depend on those places. Topeka supports conservation of monarchs and other pollinators through a variety of strategies including native restoration at construction or improvements projects, and significant amounts of education and hands-on conservation work through efforts at the Topeka Zoo and Conservation Center in Topeka.

Community Spotlight

Action Items Committed for 2024

Communications and Convening ▸

  • 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.)

Program and Demonstration Gardens ▸

  • Host or support a native seed or plant sale, giveaway or swap.
  • Plant or maintain a monarch and pollinator-friendly demonstration garden at City Hall or another prominent or culturally significant community location.
  • Plant milkweed and pollinator-friendly native nectar plants along roadsides, medians, or public rights-of-way.
  • 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).
  • Initiate or support community science (or citizen science) efforts that help monitor monarch migration and health.
  • Display educational signage at monarch gardens and pollinator habitat.
National Wildlife Federation

Uniting all Americans to ensure wildlife thrive in a rapidly changing world

PO Box 1583, Merrifield, VA 22116-1583
800.822.9919

  • Visit our Facebook
  • Visit our Facebook
  • Visit our Facebook
  • Visit our Facebook
  • Visit our Facebook
Ranger Rick

Join Ranger Rick

Inspire a lifelong connection with wildlife and wild places through our children's publications, products, and activities

Learn More

National Wildlife Federation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization