{"id":2419,"date":"2020-12-15T21:16:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:16:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiofree.org\/?p=139750"},"modified":"2020-12-15T21:16:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T21:16:29","slug":"despite-90-population-plunge-trump-admin-refuses-monarch-butterflies-endangered-species-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2020\/12\/15\/despite-90-population-plunge-trump-admin-refuses-monarch-butterflies-endangered-species-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite 90% Population Plunge, Trump Admin Refuses Monarch Butterflies Endangered Species Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"
Conservations cried foul Tuesday after the Trump administration declared the monarch butterfly a “candidate” for threatened or endangered species status, but declined to go any further to protect the imperiled insect, whose numbers have plummeted by 90% in recent decades. <\/p>\n
“[Monarchs] need the comprehensive protection that comes only from the Endangered Species Act, which would save them and so many other beleaguered pollinators that share their habitat.”
\u2014Tierra Curry,
Center for Biological Diversity<\/span><\/p>\n