Monarch butterflies and manatees, oh my! These two animals are on a big rebound.

[WhiteTara]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/02/29/monarch-butterflies-and-manatees-oh-my-these-two-animals-had-major-rebounds/

It was a big week for two hardship cases in the animal kingdom — manatees and monarch butterflies. Both are on the rebound.

On Friday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced that monarch butterfly populations were up an estimated 255 percent in a reserve Mexico created for their protection. That good news followed Thursday’s release of a count that showed Florida’s endangered West Indian manatee population rocketed upward for a second year straight.

For the butterflies, this news is in stark contrast to an announcement by the Fish and Wildlife Service last year around this time. The colorful creatures that make a miraculous flight each year across the United States to Canada and back to Mexico were observed on just 2.8 acres of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, where they spend the winter, compared with the 10 acres they’re inhabiting now.

more at link

[Bayard]

1. Yay!

Hoping to see a lot more in my garden this year.

[Bayard]

2. Ahem.

Monarchs, not manatee's.

[kentauros]

3. That's because your garden is kelpless to the manatees.

[WhiteTara]

4. Both are on the rebound

but you are correct that only manatees are animals.

[ladjf]

5. It's wonderful to hear any good news now days. nt

[Yavin4]

6. Monarch? Rebound? Isn't he stuck on Level 4?