"Logging drop continues in butterfly reserve" July 23, 2011|Associated Press
MEXICO CITY - Deforestation in the wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly in central Mexico has dropped to just over an acre’s worth of trees, compared with the hundreds of acres lost annually in the past, specialists said Thursday.
And fewer of the pine and fir trees that shelter the butterflies have been lost to bad weather this year, according to a report by researchers from Mexico’s National Autonomous University and the Monarch Fund....
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