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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 |
News |
| 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 |
News |
| 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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Acquittin' Time Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist |
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22 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Acquittin' Time Judge dismisses murder charges against Mexican peasant ecologist Mexican forest activist Felipe Arreaga was freed last week after 10 months in jail, acquitted by a judge on murder charges stemming from the 1998 death of rancher and landowner Bernardino Bautista's son. Arreaga is a leader in the peasant-ecologist movement of Mexico's Petatlan Sierra, which gained fame for blocking massive corporate logging ... |
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| Topics: logging, Mexico, news, wilderness (all these topics) |
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At Loggerheads Mexico pressured to protect eco-activists after two murders last week |
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26 May 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| At Loggerheads Mexico pressured to protect eco-activists after two murders last week International human-rights groups yesterday urged the Mexican government to take action to protect the lives of environmental activists who are carrying out anti-logging campaigns. The plea comes on the heels of an attack last week on longtime activist Albertano Penalosa, which resulted in the murders of two of his sons. Amnesty International, Greenp ... |
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| Topics: logging, Mexico, news (all these topics) |
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In the Name of the Father Isidro Baldenegro López leads a struggle against logging in the Sierra Madre |
Michelle Nijhuis |
22 Apr 2005 |
Main Dish |
| Isidro Baldenegro López. Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize. When Isidro Baldenegro López was growing up in the mountains of central Mexico, his father opposed widespread logging in the forests of the Sierra Madre. He spoke out about the effects of the destruction on the indigenous Tarahumara people, drawing the attention of local crime bosses, who ordered him ki ... |
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| Topics: logging, Mexico (all these topics) |
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The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico |
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23 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico A guerilla war is underway in Mexico's idyllic Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, where millions of black-and-orange monarch butterflies alight every year at the end of a migratory journey that begins in Canada and the Great Lakes states. On one side lie conservation groups, government agencies, and local forest-watch community groups strug ... |
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| Topics: logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened |
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10 Feb 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened The world's cloud forests, which strip moisture from clouds and supply millions of poor people in developing nations with fresh water, are in danger of being wiped out by climate change, claims a report released Monday by the U.N. and the Wor ... |
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| Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Bread and Butterfly
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09 Jul 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Bread and Butterfly Like a lot of Americans, millions of monarch butterflies spend their winters in Mexico. Trouble is, the Mexican government has been unable to protect the monarch's forest habitat from illegal logging. Reasoning that illegal logging stems from necessity -- the 200,000-odd largely impoverished people who live in the Monarch ... |
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| Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics) |
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Speedy Gone-zales
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04 Dec 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Speedy Gone-zales Mexico is losing forests at almost twice the rate previously thought, the country's Environment Ministry announced yesterday. A new multi-agency study of satellite images taken from 1993 and 2000 found that average forest loss in that time was about 2.78 million acres a year, the world's second-highest deforestation ... |
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| Topics: Brazil, deforestation, food and agriculture, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, ranching, wilderness (all these topics) |
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Sting Like a Butterfly
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28 Nov 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Sting Like a Butterfly Every year, millions of migrating Monarch butterflies make their way from Canada to central Mexico, where they reproduce and overwinter in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Trouble is, 60 percent of that reserve has disappeared in the last few decades due to logging. Now Mexican officials say they are getting serious about protecting the reserve, assigning ... |
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| Topics: Canada, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics) |
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No Shrinking Violence Threats to Mexican environmentalists continue |
Mark Hertsgaard |
19 Nov 2001 |
Main Dish |
| Two political associates of peasant environmentalists Rodolfo Montiel and Teodoro Cabrera have narrowly survived an apparent assassination attempt, raising grave questions about Montiel and Cabrera's own safety following their Nov. 8 release from jail by Mexican President Vicente Fox. Rodolfo Montiel. Felipe Arriga, the secretary general of the Ecologist Organization of the Mountain of Petatlan and ... |
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| Topics: environmental non-government organizations, logging, Mexico, politics (all these topics) |
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Prize Fighters Enviros worldwide call for release of two Mexican activists |
Mark Hertsgaard |
21 Jul 2000 |
Main Dish |
| Forty-five of the world's most prominent environmentalists have called for the immediate release of Mexican colleagues Rodolfo Montiel Flores and Teodoro Cabrera Garcia, who have been jailed and tortured after blocking logging operations by the multinational Boise Cascade in the southern state of Guerrero. Rodolfo Montiel Flores. Urging that the "tragic stories" of murdered environ ... |
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| Topics: grassroots activism, logging, Mexico (all these topics) |
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