Federal protections proposed for monarch butterflies
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced a proposal this week to list the monarch as “threatened” and give it protections under the Endangered Species Act (ESA.) Population sizes of the eastern monarch, found in Oklahoma, have declined by about 80% since the 1990s, the agency estimates.
That dedication extends to the monarch butterfly," said Zippy Duvall, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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