Off-island communities help endangered monarchs with butterfly-friendly plants
Global News
Dozens of garden enthusiasts are putting their green thumbs to good use, planting native plants to help local pollinators with the Butterflyway Project.
Plant it and they will come. That is the way of thinking for a growing community of volunteers behind the Butterflyway Project.
The group of green-thumbed individuals has been setting its roots in the off-island cities of St-Lazare and Vaudreuil for the past two years.
“When you plant native plants you see the immediate return,” Catherine Décarie said.
Décarie is one of the many Butterflyway Project rangers in partnership with the David Suzuki Foundation.
“We have to help these guys. We need to help the pollinators. That’s why we are here,” Décarie said.
The foundation says the Butterflyway Project, which started in 2017, is a volunteer-led movement that’s bringing nature home to neighbourhoods throughout Canada, “one butterfly-friendly planting at a time.”
“It’s such an easy way to help start a change with climate change. You just plant plants on your property and you know that you’re helping. If everyone had a few plants on their property that would make a huge difference,” Décarie said.
In just two years, Décarie says her backyard garden is a haven for local pollinators, most importantly the monarch butterfly.
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