The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s former longtime grizzly bear recovery manager has written a new report that recommends against grizzly bear delisting and details how he believes the federal recovery plan he wrote in 1993 should be updated to treat grizzlies in the Northern Rockies as a single population and to include new research

U.S. wildlife officials announced a decision Tuesday to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies after years of warnings from environmentalists that populations are shrinking and the beloved pollinator may not survive climate change.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is seeking public input on its proposal to list the Monarch butterfly as threatened. Public comments will be accepted on the proposal until March 12, 2025. The FWS will then evaluate the comments and any additional information on the species and determine whether to list the Monarch butterfly.

Instead of managing each of the populations separately, the groups are arguing for a strategy that combines the ecosystems into one large metapopulation, including the lands connecting the bears’ habitat.