Federal wildlife officials on Tuesday moved to add the monarch butterfly to its endangered species roster, citing decades of steep population decline of the striking black-and-orange insect.

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.

New protections for monarch butterflies are in the works as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes a new rule.

transport or kill an endangered species. A threatened listing allows for exceptions to those protections. In the monarch’s case, the proposed listing would generally prohibit anyone from killing ...

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 ...

Adult monarch butterflies ... species say proposed federal protections could boost existing efforts. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is planning to add the monarch butterfly to a list of ...

(AP) - U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies ... an endangered species. A threatened listing allows for exceptions to those ...

Monarch butterflies ... migrant butterfly as a threatened species. This designation allows exceptions to some activities that the Endangered Species Act prohibits. The proposed rule would fall ...