More than $40,000 in grants for 26 Illinois schoolyard habitat action projects – including one in Whiteside County – have been awarded by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources ...

In December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The public can comment on the listing until ...

one trend is clear — the Western Monarch butterfly population has declined by more than 95% since the 1980s, Howard said. With such a drastic population loss, the remaining butterflies are ...

For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent their ... since the count first began in 1997. While the butterfly’s population has been declining for years ...

Visitors to Pismo State Beach and other California state beaches can expect to see fewer western monarch butterflies this year. Last week, the Xerces Society announced the results of its 28th ...

The USFWS proposed in December 2024 that the monarch butterfly be listed as a threatened species under the US Endangered Species Act, with a 90-day comment period ending on March 12, 2025.

The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing habitat and climate ...

MADISON, Wis. (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies spending the winter in the western United States has dropped to its second-lowest mark in nearly three decades as pesticides, diminishing ...