Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón

4 weeks ago | blog.nwf.org | David Mizejewski |Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón |Portia Bharath

Butterflies have been in the news lately. In December 2024 the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced the proposed listing of the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. There are two populations of monarchs in the U.S. separated the Rocky Mountains, and both the western and eastern populations would be protected if the listing goes through.