by Laura Geggel, Staff Writer | January 02, 2015 05:25pm ET
The monarch butterfly, once common across the United States, could soon end up on the Endangered Species List.
Over the next year, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will determine whether the iconic black-and-orange butterflies deserve the federal protections that come with being listed an endangered or threatened species.
By some estimates, the monarch butterfly population has declined by 90 percent over the past two decades, from about 1 billion butterflies in the mid-1990s to just 35 million individuals last winter.
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