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# Goodbye monarchs? - News from The Center for Food Safety
- URL: https://www.foodconsumer.org/goodbye_monarchs_0829140250/
- Published: 2014-08-29T15:48:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-22T16:24:39.000Z
- Description: A Center for Food Safety fundraising appeal describing a legal action, filed with the Center for Biological Diversity, Xerces Society and scientist Lincoln Brower, to compel Endangered Species Act protection for monarch butterflies, down over 90% in North America in 20 years.
- Author: Food Consumer
- Tags: Politics, #vivvo-import

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Hi XXX,

Monarch butterflies are on the brink. **Over the past 20 years, the monarch butterfly population in North America has been slashed by over 90 percent. If monarchs were people, that would be like losing every living person in the United States except those in Florida and Ohio.** We don’t have much time left before they’re wiped out for good.

  
**Monarchs urgently need protection – the kind of protection that only a listing under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) can provide.**

That’s why Center for Food Safety and Center for Biological Diversity—joined by Xerces Society and renowned monarch scientist Dr. Lincoln Brower--have come together to file **a groundbreaking legal action to compel the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to grant Endangered Species Act protection to monarch butterflies.**  
  
[**We have our work cut out for us, especially considering Monsanto and friends play a big part in this disaster.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=mabXQIyXZzE3fWPpuXzB0B07Y9HSFT%2FQ&ref=foodconsumer.org) 

That’s because the best way to save monarchs is to curb chemicals like Monsanto’s Roundup herbicide, which is used abundantly on their genetically engineered crops. Roundup is a potent killer of milkweed, a major food source for monarchs. The dramatic surge in Roundup use has virtually wiped out milkweed—and as a result monarchs—in large portions of the U.S.

**This is going to be an epic showdown to save monarchs. But the truth is we can’t do it alone.** We need the help of concerned citizens like you to be able to stay in this fight and win.

[**Please give what you can right now so that we have the resources we need to secure ESA protections for monarchs.**](http://salsa3.salsalabs.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=aMB82xJVl0wpNZJKWc1bSh07Y9HSFT%2FQ&ref=foodconsumer.org)

Thanks for stepping up when we need it most.

\- The Center for Food Safety Team