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FLUTTER, BYE
Loggers in Mexico may have poisoned 22 million monarch butterflies in
an attempt to gain access to protected forestland, says Homero
Aridjis, head of the Mexican environmental organization Group of 100.
Aridjis said the butterflies, which migrate each winter from Canada
to fir forests in the Michoacan state of central Mexico, were found
dead on the ground in the last two weeks, with a smell of pesticides
in the air.  Mexico last fall expanded the size of the sanctuaries
set aside for the butterflies, concerned that illegal logging was
devastating monarch habitat.  Aridjis said the new decree could have
provoked the loggers to poison the butterflies.   In other butterfly
news, the Center for Biological Diversity is suing the U.S.
government to protect the rare Sacramento Mountains checkerspot
butterfly as an endangered species.

straight to the source:  CNN.com, Reuters, 07 Mar 2001
<http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/science/03/07/environment.butterflies.re
ut/index.html>

straight to the source:  Albuquerque Journal, Tania Soussan, 07 Mar 2001
<http://www.abqjournal.com/news/268700news03-07-01.htm>

read it in Grist Magazine: Don't let a chance to save the butterfly
flutter by -- by Gary Paul Nabhan
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/maindish/nabhan091099.stm>

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