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Monarch Butterfly Flutters on the Edge of Extinction

Roddy Scheer butterfly, endangered, extinct, extinction, list, Milkweed, Monarch, nectar, pollen, pollination, species, wildlife

Environmentalists won a lawsuit forcing the federal government to decide by 2019 whether or not to list the once abundant Monarch butterfly as endangered.

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Is Grizzly Bear on the Ropes?

Ellen Cools bears, endangered, Endangered Species Act, grizzly, list, species, threatened

Dear EarthTalk: What is being done to safeguard grizzly bears now? I heard that their numbers are dwindling and they could vanish from the Lower 48 if we don’t protect them. —Jim Meth, Akron, OH Before European colonization of North America, upwards of 50,000 grizzly bears—also known as brown bears—roamed free across what is now […]