Environmental

After 90 Percent Decline, Federal Protection Sought for Monarch Butterfly

Genetically Engineered Crops Are Major Driver in Population Crash

WASHINGTON–(ENEWSPF)–August 26, 2014.  The Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety as co-lead petitioners joined by the Xerces Society and renowned monarch scientist Dr. Lincoln Brower filed a legal petitiontoday to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service seeking Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies, which have declined by more than 90 percent in under 20 years. During the same period it is…

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