{"id":503527,"date":"2026-10-22T00:22:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:22:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503527\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T00:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T00:22:13","slug":"30th-annual-western-monarch-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503527\/","title":{"rendered":"30th annual Western Monarch Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1792628533_842_origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wednesday, October 21, 2026 10:53PM<\/p>\n<p>It collects data on the Western Monarch butterfly population, which has over a 95 percent chance of extinction by the year 2080.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; The 30th annual Western Monarch Count kicked off in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">It collects data on the Western Monarch butterfly population, which has over a 95 percent chance of extinction by the year 2080.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Volunteer community scientists and conservation organizations will count butterflies along the California coast through January.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">We spoke to the director of programs with the California State Parks Foundation about the threats to these beloved butterflies.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wednesday, October 21, 2026 10:53PM It collects data on the Western Monarch butterfly population, which has over a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[194799,112,114,113],"class_list":["post-503527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-194799","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}