Unit 5 Into the wild
Many animals migrate at certain times of the year for a variety of reasons. One of the most breathtaking migrations is the annual movement of the monarch butterfly. It uses its eyes to measure the position of the sun, which allows it todetermine the way to go.
The solution to the mystery of the butterfly’samazing ability comes at a time when its population has crashed by as much as 90 per cent in the last few years. In many places where the creature can be found, people are destroying the natural environment by cutting downtrees and using chemicals that kill the plants that monarch caterpillars eat. Fortunately, people have worked together toseek for ways to protect the butterflies and the population is recovering bit by bit eventually. After all, the more we concentrate on the butterflies, the greater the chance they willsurvive.