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Article: LOGGERS DESTROY 162 HECTARES IN MONARCH-BUTTERFLY PRESERVE.
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- SourceMex Economic News & Analysis on Mexico
- Article date:
- May 31, 2006
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The government's efforts to restore the population of monarch butterflies to Michoacan and other parts of central Mexico have suffered a major setback.
At the Third Annual Regional Conference on the Monarch Butterfly, Mexican Environment Secretary Jose Luis Luege Tamargo acknowledged that loggers have continued to destroy the habitat of the butterflies in the center of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere, which spans a large area in Michoacan and Mexico states.
The government created the biosphere in the 1980s to protect the butterflies, which migrate annually to the region from the US and Canada. The butterflies are not considered endangered or threatened ...