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• Position: ENVIRONMENT - Monarch butterflies' protection against logging - Brief Article

This past November, Francisco Gutierrez fulfilled a long-herd dream. He became a butterfly. Gutierrez flew some 4,375 mites in an ultralight plane, following monarch butterflies as they migrated from Montreal to Michoacan State in the western part of Mexico. The pilot, who is from Michoacan, says he undertook the trip to dramatize the need for Canada, Mexico, and the U.S. to work together to save the butterflies. Illegal logging has eaten away at the monarchs' Mexican habitat, white pesticides in the U.S. and Canada have wiped out the...