THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNESTO

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DAILY GRIST
10 Nov 2000
Environmental news from GRIST MAGAZINE
<http://www.gristmagazine.com>


THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING ERNESTO
In an effort to protect the winter nesting grounds of monarch 
butterflies, Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo expanded a forest 
reserve in central Mexico yesterday.  Local residents and giant 
logging companies have been cutting down lots of trees in the area, 
and a recent study indicated that 44 percent of the monarchs' winter 
habitat had been damaged or destroyed in the past 29 years.  The 
Mexican government has teamed up with the World Wildlife Fund and the 
Mexican Fund for Natural Conservation to establish a $5 million fund 
to compensate the reserve's 60,000 inhabitants for their lost logging 
rights.  Zedillo said, "We trust our neighbors to the north will be 
able to redouble their efforts to protect the monarch butterflies' 
route," which could be interpreted as criticism of widespread 
planting in the U.S. of genetically modified corn suspected of 
harming monarchs.

straight to the source:  Minneapolis Star Tribune, Associated Press, 
10 Nov 2000
<http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82904096>

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