USFWS Announces Proposed ‘Threatened’ ESA Listing of Monarch Butterfly

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed to list the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), the iconic orange and black butterfly, as a threatened species and designate approximately 4,395 acres of critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). Citing the ongoing impacts from loss and degradation of breeding, migratory, and overwintering habitat, exposure to insecticides…