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 on Tuesday proposed protecting the striking long-distance migrators under the Endangered Species Act after dramatic population drops. Monarch butterflies proposed for ...

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 ...

Federal wildlife authorities announced a proposal to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wants public feedback on a plan to list the migratory ...

A threatened status means the species gets certain federal protections and it is in danger of moving to an endangered status in the future. Species listed as endangered receive more federal ...

Previously, in our Monarch butterfly articles, we mentioned that the final decision to list Monarchs as an endangered species would be made in December 2024. And on Dec. 10, the U. S. Fish and ...

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.

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 ...

(CN) — The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday proposed to protect monarch butterflies as a “threatened species” under the Endangered Species Act.. The orange and black butterflies once common ...

However, recent developments signal a troubling reality: the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing the monarch as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

SAN DIEGO — U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed listing monarch butterflies as a threatened species and has considered some possibly contradictory ways to protect them, Nicholas Storer ...