Please join CFS in urging the FWS to protect monarch butterflies!

Monarch butterflies are one of the most beautiful and iconic insects in the world, and they are in serious trouble. The monarch butterfly population in North America has been shrinking at an alarming rate. Why? A major culprit is the use of herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup on genetically engineered (GE) crops, which is destroying a significant portion of their breeding habitat.

That’s why Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity have just co-filed a groundbreaking legal petition–joined by Xerces Society and renowned monarch scientist Prof. Lincoln Brower–to list the monarch butterfly as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).If listed, the U.S. government would be required to take urgent and significant action to protect monarchs from further declines. Continue reading →