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Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Police
Mexican police conduct anti-logging raid in butterfly habitat |
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07 Dec 2007 |
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| Posted at 10:11 AM on 07 Dec 2007 Hundreds of Mexican police raided illegal sawmills near a monarch butterfly reserve yesterday in "the largest seizure of illegally logged wood in the country's history," according to the attorney general's office. Millions of butterflies travel some 2,500 miles each winter to spend the cold season in the Mexican forest, where illegal logging is r ... |
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| Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics) |
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