ABOUT MRMA
MISSION
& VISION
The mission of the Monterey Regional Monarch Alliance is to conserve the monarch butterfly by collaborating to enhance, create, and protect monarch breeding, migratory, and overwintering habitats and to produce and distribute locally relevant messaging and materials for public outreach and education.
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Our vision is for monarch butterflies to thrive in the Monterey region due to abundant, high-quality habitat and for the community to actively appreciate, understand, and engage in efforts to protect these remarkable butterflies.
HISTORY
The Monterey Regional Monarch Alliance (MRMA) is a working group formed in 2020 to facilitate information-sharing and collaboration among stakeholders in Monterey County around monarch butterfly conservation and recovery. MRMA is made up of public agencies, nonprofit organizations, private individuals, businesses, and other entities operating in Monterey County who recognize the need to take science-based, immediate actions to address the decline in the western monarch butterfly population.
WHY
WE EXIST
Monterey County is a critical area for monarchs due to our long coastline where monarchs overwinter and our abundant inland habitat where monarchs breed and migrate. Many questions remain about when and where monarchs use habitat in Monterey County and how we can best recover the population.
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No single individual, agency, or organization can recover the monarch population alone. Through MRMA, stakeholders work together to save this iconic species in our region and throughout the entire western monarch range.
ALLIANCE PARTNERS
The following list represents organizations who participate in the Monterey Regional Monarch Alliance. If you are interested in joining MRMA, please contact us.
