Glen Ellyn Commission to Co-Sponsor Plight of the Pollinator Event

As part of its continuing efforts to gain awareness of the declining monarch butterfly population, the Glen Ellyn Environmenal Commission, together with the DuPage Monarch Project and the River Prairie Group of the Sierra Club, will host a free program on pollinators to educate participants on simple, easy actions that will help monarchs and pollinators recover.

The event will be held on Tuesday, February 23 at the Glen Ellyn Public Library, 400 Duane Street at 7 p.m.

Monarchs, bees and other pollinators are struggling for survival in a changing world of dwindling habitat, chemically intense farming practices and extreme weather events. The population of eastern monarchs butterflies has suffered dramatic declines in population and bees are experiencing colony collapse.

Learn more about the simple, easy things that can be done to help pollinators. For more information on attending the Plight of the Pollinator program, please visit DuPage Monarch Project.