Watch Millions of Butterflies Take Flight in One of the Planet’s Most Magical—and Endangered—Migrations
The high-altitude forest here is the perfect microclimate for the species, and it’s one of the few places in the world where ...
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SAVING THE BUTTERFLY FOREST
The forest of oyamel firs at El Rosario ... so Sáenz-Romero is looking to plant oyamel-fir groves on higher peaks, outside the reserve. These would be far from where the monarchs have ever ...
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Butterfly Remains
An innovative project in central Mexico aims to protect oyamel fir forests, essential for the survival of migrating monarch butterflies. Led by Dr Cuauhtémoc Sáenz-Romero from the Universidad ...
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Eastern Monarch Butterfly Population Falls Again
They migrate each winter to oyamel fir forests on high-elevation mountaintops in central Mexico. Scientists estimate the population size by measuring the area of trees turned orange by the clustering ...
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New conservation strategy to protect monarch butterfly winter habitat in Mexico
A new initiative is involving local communities in conservation of the winter habitat of millions of Monarch butterflies For the past two decades, the unique high-altitude pine-oyamel fir forest ...