USFWS Proposed Rule: Thoughts and Implications

22 January 2025 | Author: Kristen Baum

We have been receiving questions about our thoughts related to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) proposed rule to list the monarch butterfly as threatened 4(d) under the Endangered Species Act, as well as what the implications are for ...

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Monarch Listing Announcement Expected Next Week

26 November 2024 | Author: Kristen Baum

The monarch butterfly was petitioned for listing under the Endangered Species Act in August 2014. The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) issued a “warranted, but precluded” decision in December 2020, which designated the monarch as a candidate species ...

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Monarchs now ranked as ‘endangered’ in Canada

18 January 2024 | Author: Chip Taylor

I started the year with a rant! While traveling over the holidays, I received an email from Canadian Don Davis on 26 December informing me that “Monarch butterflies are now ranked under Canada’s Species at Risk Act as "Endangered".” There was ...

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Why there will always be monarchs

25 August 2023 | Author: Chip Taylor

Why there will always be monarchs: Reproductive rate, replacement, resilience and extinction by Chip Taylor, Director, Monarch Watch Last year, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) added the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) to its Red List of endangered species. The simplified ...

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The pending decision: Will monarchs be designated as threatened or endangered?

14 June 2023 | Author: Chip Taylor

The pending decision: Will monarchs be designated as threatened or endangered? by Chip Taylor Introduction As many of you know the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), a division of the Department of the Interior, has been mandated to make a determination as to whether ...

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IUCN Red List and the status of monarchs

21 July 2022 | Author: Jim Lovett

The recent news about the IUCN's Red List does not change the status of monarchs in the U.S. In a December 15, 2020 press release, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its decision with respect to the petition to ...

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ESA listing decision for the monarch

15 December 2020 | Author: Chip Taylor

In a press release today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its decision with respect to the petition to declare the monarch a "threatened" species under the Endangered Species Act: "After a thorough assessment of the monarch butterfly's status, the ...

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Monarch conservation in the age of Covid-19

2 April 2020 | Author: Chip Taylor

I consistently overestimate the market for milkweeds and I've done it again this year. As an optimist who wants to get milkweeds in the ground to compensate for habitat losses, I ask nurseries to produce more milkweeds than we have ...

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Gardening for monarchs in the age of COVID-19

19 March 2020 | Author: Chip Taylor

We appear to have entered a new era of uncertain duration, one possibly characterized by waves of reinfection by Covid-19. Yet, we must carry on with monarch conservation – somehow. We are in new territory. Our lives will change in many ...

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Grasslands, birds, monarchs, pollinators and more

11 February 2020 | Author: Chip Taylor

The world has been changing rapidly, but the changes are such that most of us aren't aware of what has changed or what is missing. As an ecologist, I'm alert to change but, like most people, I often miss the indicators. ...

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