The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the once-common monarch as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and designating coastal California sites where the butterflies spend ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants to list monarch butterflies as threatened, with species-specific protections under the Endangered Species Act.

Federal wildlife officials proposed on Tuesday that monarch butterflies receive protection as a threatened species. The flashy orange and black butterflies, which flutter forth each year on an ...

Monarch butterflies will be listed as a threatened species U.S. officials decided to extend protections to monarch ... In the monarch's case, the proposed listing would generally prohibit anyone ...

The monarch butterfly population continues to shrink due to factors such as climate change. People working to help the species say proposed federal protections could boost existing efforts.

Dec 10 (Reuters) - The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed listing the monarch butterfly as a threatened species on Tuesday, citing a significant decline in the iconic black and orange insects ...

It’s a big day for insects. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Tuesday that it is proposing the monarch butterfly for threatened species status under the Endangered Species Act, a big ...

The natural phenomenon of the iconic monarch butterflies migrating south for the ... the USFWS issued a December 2024 proposal to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the ...

The agency launched a review of the the butterfly’s status at the end of 2014, concluding six years later that listing was warranted but other species took priority.