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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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Winging It
Mexico boosts funding for butterfly protection |
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26 Nov 2007 |
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| Posted at 11:40 AM on 26 Nov 2007 Millions of butterflies clapped their tiny wings as Mexican President Felipe Calderon yesterday announced a plan to curb logging and protect habitat for migrating monarchs. Mexico has already boosted anti-logging efforts, resulting in a 48 percent drop in illegal tree-chopping in the last year. Calderon hopes the additional funding to be put toward the existing Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve will boo ... |
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| Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, wildlife (all these topics) |
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