The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...
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 ...
OAKLAND, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity and Endangered Habitats League petitioned the California Fish and Game Commission today to list the Quino checkerspot butterfly as endangered under ...
The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this winter, a foreboding sign for the future of the beloved ...
Citizen scientists are called on to help with tagging monarch butterflies and find out why their numbers are dropping.
Some research indicates that certain types of milkweed such as Asclepias Curassavica the tropical variety sold at home ...
The number of western monarch butterflies overwintering in California dropped by 30% last ... another monarch population travels from southern Canada and the northeastern United States to central ...