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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like the Police Mexican police conduct anti-logging raid in butterfly habitat		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 ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, progress, wildlife (all these topics)

Winging It Mexico boosts funding for butterfly protection		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 ...
Topics: habitat protection, logging, Mexico, news, wildlife (all these topics)

The Butterfly Effect Illegal Logging Gangs Threaten Monarch Butterfly Reserve in Mexico		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 ...
Topics: logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

Cloud Nein World's Cloud Forests Threatened		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 ...
Topics: Africa, Asia, climate, Ecuador, food and agriculture, Indonesia, logging, Malaysia, Mexico, renewable energy, South America, United Nations, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Bread and Butterfly		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 ...
Topics: deforestation, environmental non-government organizations, green living, logging, Mexico, wilderness, wildlife (all these topics)

Sting Like a Butterfly		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 ...
Topics: Canada, international government agencies, logging, Mexico, wildlife (all these topics)

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