The Macedonian Grayling is one of Europe's most endangered butterflies. It can only be found in one place in the entire world: the hills around the village of Pletvar in North Macedonia.

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

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

The report reveals that intensive conservation efforts have started to turn around the fortunes of some of the most endangered butterflies. According to Richard Fox, author of the report, this was as ...

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

“The Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly is one of the most endangered animals in the world, so it’s welcome news that it finally has protection,” said Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the ...

By 2012 the butterfly occupied half the number of monitored sites it had formerly occupied, and it has continued to decline precipitously. Today it is virtually undetected throughout its range, ...

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

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

the butterflies are estimated to have a 99% chance of going extinct in the western part of the United States by 2080 and somewhere between a 56 and 74% chance of extinction in the east, according 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 ...