In December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The public can comment on the listing until ...

The USFWS proposed in December 2024 that the monarch butterfly be listed as a threatened species under the US Endangered Species Act, with a 90-day comment period ending on March 12, 2025.

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their ... since the count first began in 1997. While the butterfly’s population has been declining for years ...

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing ...

PISMO BEACH, Calif. - Historically low numbers of western monarch butterflies visited the Central Coast this winter. This data comes as the butterfly is under consideration for protection under ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat ...

FILE – A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, Calif., on Nov. 10, 2021. (AP Photo/Nic Coury, File) by: TODD RICHMOND, Associated Press ...