How five proposed Trump Administration changes threaten protections for struggling species in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The monarch butterfly is on the endangered species list and the importance of that goes beyond just preserving the insect. To those who study and advocate for the protection of the monarch butterfly, ...

The Iowa skipper butterfly, once prevalent in prairies across the middle of the U.S., is now at risk of extinction — according to the Center for Food Safety, which has petitioned federal agencies to ...

The Endangered Species Act is no help yet.

NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service opened public comment on its draft recovery plan for the endangered Sacramento Mountains checkerspot butterfly found in New Mexico. The butterfly ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that the Fender’s blue butterfly will be downlisted from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. This action is based on ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Researchers are on the move to save a butterfly that’s on the brink of extinction. Scientists here in Albuquerque are currently raising what may be the last known ...

TWIN LAKE, MI – Several small, silvery-winged butterflies flitted among the native spotted bee balm and butterfly milkweed growing under the hot, summer sun at Muskegon State Game Area. Wildlife ...

The butterfly was listed as endangered in 2023 due to a series of threats, including impacts from wildfires, climate variability, incompatible grazing, invasive plants and recreation. The butterfly ...