[leps-talk] Why aren't Mexico's overwintering monarchs in the news yet this winter?

[Paul Cherubini]

Mark Walker wrote:

> Do Lincoln Brower and Orley Taylor benefit financially from Monarchs and the
> associated media attention they arouse?

Not personally, but helps bring in the foundation grants and donations that 
supports the organizations they founded, pays for their trips to Mexico, etc.  

Here's the flood of press coverage I said was coming:

Paul Cherubini

February 12, 2002
Storm in Mexico Devastates Monarch Butterfly Colonies
By CAROL KAESUK YOON
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/12/science/12BUTT.html

February 12, 2002 07:34 PM ET
Mexico Butterfly Deaths May Hit Future Migrations
By Pav Jordan
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=sciencenews&StoryID=591531

Wednesday, 13 February, 2002, 12:24 GMT
Mass butterfly deaths after storm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1818000/1818158.stm

(Filed: 13/02/2002)
Millions of butterflies killed by freak storm
By Ronald Buchanan in Mexico City
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2002/02/13/wbutt13.xml&
sSheet=/news/2002/02/13/ixworld.html

February 13, 2002
Monarch Butterflies Dying in Mexico
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Mexico-Monarch-Mystery.html

 
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