Friend,

Monarch butterflies are waging an uphill battle. Their food sources and habitats are disappearing, causing their population to flutter toward extinction.

The Endangered Species Act has a 99 percent success rate, and it can help save them -- but monarchs won't get these protections without your help.

Join us in calling on the Biden administration to give monarchs endangered species protections.

Thanks for making it all possible,

Rex Wilmouth
Senior Program Director

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From: Environment Colorado <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, Jul 16, 2021
Subject: Tell the Biden administration: Give monarchs endangered species protections
To: Friend <[email protected]>

Friend,

In the last 20 years, the western monarch population has plummeted to only 2,000 butterflies, and the eastern population has fallen by roughly 80 percent.1

They need Endangered Species Act protections to survive -- and while the Biden administration has begun to restore protections in the Endangered Species Act, which was weakened by the previous administration, monarchs are still waiting in the wings for a spot on the list.2

Tell the Biden administration: Monarchs need Endangered Species Act protections.

For years, children in classrooms across America watched in wonder as striped caterpillars miraculously metamorphosed into vibrant orange monarch butterflies. Opening their hands, they set them free to fly.

But the world monarchs fly into is uncertain, and now future generations may never get the chance to know these little butterflies.

We know how to prevent this. The Endangered Species Act has a 99 percent success rate and has saved countless other species from extinction.3 With a new administration in office, now is our chance to give monarchs the protection they desperately need.

We're urging the Biden administration to give monarchs endangered species protections. Will you join us?

With numerous threats endangering them, monarchs qualify for Endangered Species Act protections, but they haven't been labeled a priority.4 We need to take action now to protect this beautiful species before it's too late.

With the Endangered Species Act, we could restore and protect monarch habitats.

Extinction rates are accelerating around the globe, and monarchs aren't immune.5 Friend, we must do all we can to ensure that we don't permanently lose monarch butterflies.

Tell the Biden administration: Protect monarchs with the Endangered Species Act.

Thank you,

Rex Wilmouth
Senior Program Director

1. John Flesher, "Feds to delay seeking legal protection for monarch butterfly," AP News, December 15, 2020.
2. Dino Grandoni, Darryl Fears, "Biden administration moves to bring back endangered species protections undone under Trump," The Washington Post, June 4, 2021.
3. Salvador Rizzo, "Has the Endangered Species Act saved 'very few' plants and animals?" The Washington Post, August 16, 2019.
4. "Assessing the status of the monarch butterfly," U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, last accessed June 30, 2021.
5. Alex Fox, "Already Unprecedented Rate of Wildlife Extinctions Is Accelerating,"Smithsonian Magazine, June 3, 2020.