The Western population of the monarch butterfly has declined to a near-record low with fewer than 10,000 found living in ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is taking steps to list monarch butterflies as threatened species and designate seven ...

The count of 9,119 butterflies this winter is a sharp decline from 200,000 reported in the past three years, but slightly up from 2,000 monarch reported in 2020.

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

A butterfly sits on a leaf at Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove on Nov. 10, 2021. Photo by Nic Coury, AP Photo For the past three years, more than 200,000 western monarch butterflies spent ...

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 ...

The monarch butterfly was first petitioned to be listed ... habitat for the Western monarch population across Alameda, Marin, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara, Santa Cruz and Ventura ...

This sanctuary attracts a massive population of monarch butterflies that migrate thousands ... but the eucalyptus and Monterey cypress trees in the grove provide them with ample protection.

Western Monarch Count observed a peak population of 9,119 Monarch butterflies in California this winter, marking a sharp decline in the last few years. The count, administered by ...