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This is the KGOU PM NewsBrief for May 21, 2024.

In the last decade, monarch butterfly populations have plummeted at an alarming rate. The International Union for the Conservation of Nature has classified them as endangered.

In collaboration with the Oklahoma Monarch and Pollinator Collaborative and National Wildlife Federation, the Oklahoma City Zoo is accepting applications for its OKC Living Classroom Grant program.

On the Town: Living Classroom Grants to benefit kids, butterflies By: Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Journal Record March 5, 2021 Lillie-Beth Brinkman The Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Gardens has a long list of things it is doing to help conserve the monarch population and foster gardens that appeal to these butterflies and other pollinators. For starters, the gardens are beautiful on their own, but walking through them when the butterflies are migrating through Oklahoma between Mexico and Canada is another treat. The zoo also is part of the Oklahoma Monarch and Pollinator Collaborati...