“The magic of the monarch migration from Canada through the U.S. and on to Mexico (and then back north over multiple generations) continues to be in existential jeopardy. Destruction of monarch habitats in Mexico initiated the threat to the iconic butterfly. But it’s no longer a crisis that gringos can blame solely on the illegal logging I witnessed in Michoacan, where monarchs overwinter. That’s why when Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, Prime Minster Stephen Harper and U.S. President Barack Obama agreed to meet in Toluca for one of their periodic summit conferences – close to the Monarch breeding grounds – monarch aficionados and preservationists hoped the trio would add monarch survival to the agenda.”
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