Butterfly

Monarch butterflies could be on the federal Endangered Species list by year's end

The International Union for the Conservation of Nature added the monarch to its ‘red list’ of threatened species Thursday. It says the butterfly is threatened by habitat loss and climate change.

According to research from the Wisconsin Monarch Collaborative, individuals and organizations across the state have created hundreds of thousands more acres of monarch habitat in the past three years.

Each year monarch butterflies float through Northern Wisconsin on their way to Canada or Mexico, but the number of migrating monarchs is shrinking as the…

America's beloved monarch butterfly is facing possible listing as a threatened species.The Trump administration is expected to announce this week if it…