{"id":133449,"date":"2020-12-14T23:43:55","date_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:43:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/monarch-butterfly-may-be-added-to-endangered-species-list\/"},"modified":"2020-12-14T23:43:55","modified_gmt":"2020-12-14T20:43:55","slug":"monarch-butterfly-may-be-added-to-endangered-species-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/monarch-butterfly-may-be-added-to-endangered-species-list\/","title":{"rendered":"#Monarch butterfly may be added to endangered species list"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Monarch butterfly may be added to endangered species list<\/strong>”
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The beloved monarch butterfly is being considered \u2014 again \u2014 for federal designation as an endangered species. <\/p>\n

Environmentalists are urging the Trump administration to grant the orange-and-black butterflies protection under the Endangered Species Act in light of a rapid decline in their numbers. Conservation group Xerces Society has estimated that only about 2,000 monarchs have made their annual trip<\/a> to California\u2019s coastal groves this winter, AP reported<\/a>. All told, they expect<\/a> to see more than 10,000. Last year, California officials counted app<\/a>roximately 30,000 \u2014 still a far cry from the millions that fluttered through during the 1980s.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe may be witnessing the collapse of the of the monarch population in the West,\u201d said Sarina Jepsen, director of Xerces\u2019 endangered species program. <\/p>\n

Conservationists say climate change, massive habitat loss \u2014 namely a two-decade decrease equal to an area the size of Texas \u2014 and the use of herbicides, particularly the controversial glyphosate, have contributed<\/a> to the loss of monarchs. Their population decreased by 84% between 1997 and 2015, according to<\/a> a 2016 US Geological Survey and Scripps Institution of Oceanography study.<\/p>\n

\u201cMonarch populations may be suffering from death by a thousand cuts,\u201d said Xerces\u2019 executive director Scott Black in the alarming announcement on the society\u2019s website. \u201cDestruction, degradation and neglect of overwintering sites, climate change and overuse of insecticides are likely contributing factors.\u201d<\/p>\n

Last year, environmental groups sued the White House over President Trump\u2019s plan to roll back protections on \u201cthreatened\u201d species \u2014 a category that\u2019s less severe than \u201cendangered,\u201d which is for nearly extinct species \u2014 that are listed in the Endangered Species Act of 1973. <\/p>\n

Currently, monarch butterflies are federally listed as threatened. Conservationists first petitioned<\/a> the US Fish & Wildlife Service for their upgrade to endangered status in 2014, with a court-ordered deadline to respond approaching this week. <\/p>\n

The re-designation \u201cwould guarantee that the monarch would get a comprehensive recovery plan and ongoing funding,\u201d Tierra Curry, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the AP. \u201cThe monarch is so threatened that this is the only prudent thing to do.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Monarch butterfly may be added to endangered species list” The beloved monarch butterfly is being considered \u2014 again \u2014 for federal designation as an endangered species. Environmentalists are urging the Trump administration to grant the orange-and-black butterflies protection under the Endangered Species Act in light of a rapid decline in their numbers. Conservation group Xerces…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":133450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2020\/12\/monarch-butterfly.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[83688,13096,73083,64690,51935],"class_list":["post-133449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-12-14-20","tag-california","tag-endangered-species","tag-insects","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}