California's monarch butterfly population plummets
The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...
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Rare Southern California Butterfly Protected as Threatened Under Endangered Species Act
SAN DIEGO, Calif.— After nearly 30 years of petitions and lawsuits by the Center for Biological Diversity, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected one of Southern California’s rarest ...
U.S. Eyes Threats To Monarch Butterflies, Survival Tied To California
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...
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State Protections Sought for Imperiled Southern California Butterfly
Once common throughout much of Southern California, the Quino checkerspot butterfly, or Quino, has experienced extreme declines over the past 50 years. By the 1980s, more than 75% of its historical ...