The Fender’s blue butterfly, found only in the Willamette Valley, is moving off the endangered species list. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the butterfly will be reclassified as ...

Nevada has a new endangered species, and it takes expert eyes and perfect timing to spot it fluttering through the high mountain meadows west of Las Vegas. The Mountain Charleston blue butterfly is ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – An Oregon butterfly species that was once thought to be extinct has rebounded enough to be removed from the endangered species list. The U.S. Department of Fish and Wildlife ...

For decades, conservationists have been restoring the biodiversity of San Francisco's coastal dunes. But a key piece of the puzzle was missing — until now. The Xerces blue butterfly, which serves as ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed downlisting the Fender’s blue butterfly from endangered to threatened under the federal Endangered Species Act. The proposal is based ...

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The endangered Palos Verdes blue butterfly, a thumbnail-sized creative that lives for less than a week, is making a comeback — with a lot of help from conservationists. The blue butterfly, native to ...

After Hurricane Andrew ripped through South Florida in 1992, the already-scarce Miami blue butterfly almost went extinct: No one recorded a single sighting for years. Finally, in 1999, a cheer went up ...

State butterfly biologists Heidi Holman, left, and Heather Siart scout for frosted elfin butterflies in the Concord pine barrens, where the endangered Karner blue butterfly was reintroduced nearly 20 ...

Scientists have discovered a butterfly species native to Victoria's Wimmera region is surviving in higher numbers than previously thought. A Zoos Victoria survey has found the golden-rayed blue ...

Naturalists have spotted an unexpected sight for Washington state in the Tri-Cities area this fall — the tiniest butterfly species of North America. At the start of this week close to 30 sightings, ...