The Ellwood Mesa Butterfly Grove used to be California's largest wintering site for monarch butterflies, but in 2024, only 30 butterflies were counted.
In response to a follow-up lawsuit we filed, the Service issued a proposal to guarantee the butterfly and its critical habitat full protection ... only to later withdraw it. Nearly a decade after the ...
CLOUDCROFT, N.M.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed designating nine areas in New Mexico, totaling 1,637 acres, as critical habitat for the endangered Sacramento Mountains checkerspot ...
The Western population of the monarch butterfly hit a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in California this ...
In between the ponderosa pine and white fir trees on the Spring Mountains of Southern Nevada lives an endemic blue butterfly. Due to population decline and habitat loss, the Mount Charleston blue ...
Indiana’s last remaining habitat for one of the world’s rarest butterfly species is now permanently protected thanks to the quick work of a local conservation group. Cliff Chapman, the land ...
Habitat destruction, pesticides and extreme weather fluctuation due to climate change are all to blame for the butterfly’s decline. This year’s particularly poor showing can also be attributed ...