Monarchs caught up in rewrite of endangered species rule

A monarch butterfly perches on milkweed at the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., Friday, May 31, 2019. Farming and other human development have eradicated state-size swaths of its native milkweed habitat, cutting the butterfly's numbers by 90% over the last two decades. It is now under considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act.

Rapid development and climate change are escalating the rates of species loss, according to a May United Nations report. For monarchs, farming and other human development have eradicated state-size swaths of native milkweed habitat, cutting the butterfly’s numbers by 90% over the past two decades. Another coming change will end across-the-board protections for creatures newly listed as threatened. Conservation groups say that will leave them unprotected for months or years, as officials, conservationists and industries and landowners hash out each species’ survival plan, case by case.

Some animals — like a shy mountain caribou species that went extinct from the wild in the lower 48 states last winter, despite protection under the Endangered Species Act — struggle and disappear out of sight. Monarchs can serve as reminders of the others, says Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum, and a conservation biologist who has studied monarchs since 1984.

For corn and soybean farmer Wayne Fredericks in Osage, Iowa, the monarch’s seemingly vulnerable life cycle is a mystery.

colvinj Well, let's just do away with farms, that will fix it

The cloak!

Trump as no clue on how fragile life is.

Trump needs to not touch that Act!! Everything he touches is torched. We need to protect the Endangered Species Act from the devil!

ESA, the best thing Nixon made.

There will be a massive outbreak of milkweed. We will be totally covered in milkweed fluff if the monarchs are not around to lay eggs on them for their caterpillars to munch.

I think the Declaration of Independence states clearly how we feel about monarch butterflies.

Trump, and Trump only is the only Monarch here, it has been declared by Jester Barr....ICE (Insect Culinary Eradication) has been vanquishing milkweed since the Coup attempt began....

If you're so concerned about the Monarchs, fight to keep their habitat protected in Mexico and plant milkweed like us Republicans do instead of making asses of yourselves blaming President Trump!

and he'll give it a big thumbs up that he eradicated the Monarch butterfly and made babies orphans. DonaldTrump is a real piece of work

If they only killed them when they were larva , no one would care \\(••)/

Everyone should plant Milkweed !!

The Trump Administration is restructuring it. Not weakening it.

Wait! realDonaldTrump has only been president for 2-1/2 years. How the hell can you blame him for the eradication of a butterfly 🦋 in such a short period of time?

Trump is a problem to all living things

Ahahahahaha Zero credibility

hollyrock7718 Thank you for what you do for the Monarchs.

I have about 10 of those on my windshield, endangered I think not.

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