[Pollinator] Fwd: USFWS Announces Monarch ESA Listing Decision

Tue Dec 15 11:22:14 PST 2020

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From: Keystone Monarch Collaborative <info at keystone.org>
Date: Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 10:54 AM
Subject: USFWS Announces Monarch ESA Listing Decision
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced its ESA listing decision for
the monarch butterfly.
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December 15, 2020
*USFWS: ESA Listing of Monarch Butterfly Warranted but Precluded*
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today’s decision from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) that
adding the monarch butterfly to the list of threatened and endangered
species is warranted but precluded by work on higher-priority listing
actions. This means USFWS has added the monarch butterfly to the candidate
list and assigned it a listing priority number of eight. This priority
number indicates the magnitude of threats is moderate and those threats are
imminent. The monarch's status will be reviewed each year until it is no
longer a candidate.

“We conducted an intensive, thorough review using a rigorous, transparent
science-based process and found that the monarch meets listing criteria
under the Endangered Species Act. However, before we can propose listing,
we must focus resources on our higher-priority listing actions,” said U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service Director Aurelia Skipwith in a press release.
“While this work goes on, we are committed to our ongoing efforts with
partners to conserve the monarch and its habitat at the local, regional and
national levels. Our conservation goal is to improve monarch populations,
and we encourage everyone to join the effort.”

The mission of the Monarch Collaborative would not have changed with any
listing decision. Today’s announcement only reinforces the Collaborative’s
commitment to promoting voluntary efforts to restore, enhance, and protect
monarch habitat while maintaining producers’ flexibility in their
operations. We will continue to work with our members to help farmers and
landowners identify agricultural and conservation practices to support
healthy monarch populations, increase awareness of those strategies with
the agricultural community and other interested parties, and promote the
implementation of those practices that will support monarch butterfly
populations in agricultural landscapes.

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concert with monarch conservation. Because farmers and ranchers are
stewards of the land across much of monarch habitat, they are in a unique
position to support sustainable monarch populations.
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