Once, millions of monarchs wintered in California. But climate change, habitat loss, widespread pesticide use and disease ...

The major U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s proposal would declare the iconic species as threatened, with federal scientists ...

Not that long ago, monarch butterflies used to migrate in droves. However, over the last few decades, the number of these ...

Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...

Thogmartin and other researchers have evaluated more than 200 scenarios for restoring greater than 1.3 billion stems of ...

Monarch butterflies are among the most beloved insects in North America ... Listing a species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act means that it is nearing, but does not yet face, imminent ...

The count of 9,119 butterflies this winter is a sharp decline from 200,000 reported in the past three years, but slightly up from 2,000 monarch reported in 2020.

The Western population of the monarch butterfly hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this ...

Pismo State Beach this year – The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, an international nonprofit dedicated to ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service first listed the butterfly as an endangered species in 1992 ... said fens are globally rare and most of them are so severely degraded that they aren’t ...

The proposal to list the monarch as a threatened species is not a done deal. The FWS invites comments from the general public ...