The Fender’s blue butterfly has fluttered away from the brink of extinction. The species, once so rare it was thought to be extinct, is no longer considered endangered, according to a January 11 ...

If so, what creatures should serve as surrogates for extinct ones ... a symbol for British butterfly conservation. Pyle, an American, thought of the Xerces blue. “We should make that our ...

Or rather, she made it right, building a net out of a community of friends and her devotion to resurrecting a cerulean-blue, thumbnail-size butterfly once believed extinct — the Palos Verdes blue.

Corrections & Clarifications: The article has been updated to correctly reflect the Fender's blue butterfly's downlisting on the Endangered Species List. It remains on the list as "threatened." ...

Due to population decline and habitat loss, the Mount Charleston blue butterfly, Icaricia shasta charlestonensis, entered the endangered species list in 2013. However, efforts are ongoing to help ...

A butterfly once thought to have gone extinct is now thriving in Britain after 150 years. Thousands of the large blue butterfly have been recorded in south-west England, thanks to a conservation ...

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