FW: Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat

[Mike Quinn]

Mexico expands monarch butterfly habitat
 
November 10, 2000
 
http://www.cnn.com/2000/NATURE/11/10/mexico.monarch.reut/

On Thursday the government announced it was increasing the size of the
protected area to 216 square miles (56,000 hectares) from 62 square miles
(16,000 hectares), and expanding the so-called core zone where cutting trees
is banned. In buffer zones, regulated tree-cutting is permitted. 

"The monarch butterfly reserve shows that conservation is not contrary to
economic and social development," President Ernesto Zedillo said at a
ceremony formalizing the move. 

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Forward from the Monarch Watch Listserv:

>  Greenwire's excerpt of SF Chronicle story
>
>          BUTTERFLIES: Mexico expands monarch reserve, compensates
>          residents
>
>  Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo issued a decree yesterday that 
>will expand a monarch butterfly reserve while protecting the 
>livelihood of its inhabitants.
>
>  The new protections will link a string of nature reserves to create 
>a continuous corridor in the butterfly's winter nesting grounds. It 
>will add a 100,000-acre buffer zone around the current monarch 
>reserve, which has been degraded over the past few decades by 
>illegal logging. At the same time, the government will join the 
>World Wildlife Fund and the Mexican Fund for Natural Conservation to 
>establish a $5 million fund to compensate about 60,000 residents in 
>the area for lost logging rights.
>
>  The compensation plan is largely unprecedented in Mexico, where 
>landowners whose activities are limited by protected areas sometimes 
>resort to illegal logging.
>
>  The Global Environmental Facility, administered by the World Bank, 
>has pledged $60 million to help fund the management of the monarch 
>reserve and other areas (AP/San Francisco Chronicle online, Nov. 9). 
>- AGR

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Mike Quinn
Invertebrate Biologist
Wildlife Diversity Branch
Texas Parks & Wildlife
3000 IH 35 South, Suite 100, Austin, Texas 78704
Ph/Fax: 512/912-7059, -7058 
mike.quinn at tpwd.state.tx.us
Texas Monarch Watch Hotline: 800/468-9719

 
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