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Monday, November 23, 2009

Photo: Mexico Pushes Butterfly Protection Via Tourism


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Monarch butterflies hang from a tree branch at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in central Mexico on November 25, 2007.

Mexican President Felipe Calderón announced a plan to pump pesos into the reserve to boost tourism. The site lies in an impoverished area where illegal logging threatens the monarch's fragile habitat.

Photograph by Miguel Tovar/AP