Items Tagged with 'monarch butterfly'

Stakeholders gathered for the first-ever Monarch Butterfly Summit in Washington, D.C. last week and the Interior Department announced a major investment in conservation.

Despite steep declines in its numbers, the Fish and Wildlife Service has decided not to list the monarch butterfly under the Endangered Species Act, concluding it must first work on other, higher priority species.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22, 2017 – Bayer and its partners in a new Feed a Bee steering committee are making available $500,000 over the next two years to fund projects that will increase forage and plantings for honey bees, monarch butterflies and other pollinators in every state in the U.S.