The number of monarch butterflies spending winter in the western U.S. dropped dramatically this year, despite moves to extend ...

"I really want to spread the word that we should not give up right now," said Isis Howard, a conservation biologist with the ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific ...

This winter, volunteers from the Xerces Society, a nonprofit environmental group, tallied just 9,119 western monarchs — a ...

Just over 9,000 monarchs were counted in California last winter, the second lowest ever since the annual count began in 1997 ...

A 2,000-mile migration was thought to be a “foolish ... the USFWS issued a December 2024 proposal to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act.

MADISON, Wis. — 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 ...

The western monarch migration occurs over multiple generations ... the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the U.S. Endangered ...

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 ...

While the butterfly ... Their migration also attracts visitors to California state beaches, particularly in Santa Cruz and Oceano. Moreno estimates that over 80,000 people visit sites including Pismo ...