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.

The proposed ... change. Monarch butterflies serve as an indicator of the status of insect pollinators and their habitats. I am happy to see the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) propose to protect ...

After years on hold, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS”) is moving forward with a proposed rule to list monarch butterflies as ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plans to add the butterfly ... endangered species. A threatened listing allows for exceptions to those protections. In the monarch’s case, the proposed listing ...

We take the graceful beauty of the monarch butterfly for granted. This iconic species undertakes one of the world’s greatest ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is proposing protection for one of the nation’s most beloved species — the monarch butterfly ... to list the species as threatened with species-specific ...

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

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently decided to list the Monarch Butterfly as a threatened species. Tad Yankoski, ...

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 ... the 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 threatened ...