Canada’s federal government is considering changing the status of Monarch butterflies to “endangered,” a move that may limit human activities in their habitat.
The environment ministry published a regulatory impact analysis on May 13, which includes feedback it got from regional governments, industry, and others.
Some expressed concern that permits would be required to remove milkweeds, the plants on which Monarchs lay their eggs. The ministry did not specify which companies expressed this concern, saying only that one of them was a “Crown corporation” and the other an “industry organization.”
Most of the 12 responses the ministry received favoured listing the butterfly as endangered, but these two organizations “expressed concern that the reclassification of the Monarch could restrict their ability to perform their activities.”…