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reserve in Mexico have been found dead within a week of each other,
raising concerns for the safety of environmental activists in the
country.</font></font></p><div class="rebellt-item col1" data-basename="particle-1" data-href="https://www.ecowatch.com/butterfly-defenders-dead-mexico-2645023961.html?rebelltitem=1#rebelltitem1" data-id="1" data-is-image="False" data-reload-ads="false" id="rebelltitem1">
<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Homero Gómez González, 50, who managed a butterfly reserve in Mexico's Michoacán state and campaigned against illegal
logging in the butterflies' winter habitat, was found dead in a well on
Jan. 29, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51356265?fbclid=IwAR246vnWdkp4CnQ3DyVVMq1AkC_wdOH2Y8NWfovQu1DNwR0eA8HJSl_GACY" target="_blank">BBC News reported</a>.
Three days later, part-time reserve tour guide Raúl Hernández Romero,
44, was also found dead on top of a hill in the El Campanario monarch
butterfly sanctuary.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"How can you protect the butterflies if
Homero Gómez or other people are not protected?" poet and environmental
activist Homero Aridjis <a href="https://www.npr.org/2020/02/03/802359415/sadness-and-worry-after-2-men-connected-to-butterfly-sanctuary-are-found-dead?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=nprnews&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=npr&fbclid=IwAR04rBEOTtK4TCTuwYOz_kr2qHsfB7pW-FLmyGVMEV07xixDWZPuv4lKO8w&t=1580806622067" target="_blank">asked NPR</a>.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gómez González managed the El Rosario sanctuary, which is part of the <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1290/" target="_blank">Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve</a>,a UNESCO World Heritage site. The site, located in forested mountains
around 100 kilometers (approximately 62 miles) northwest of Mexico City,
is where more than half of eastern monarch butterfly colonies spend
their winters. The butterflies travel all the way to Canada each spring
and then back again in the fall. Because four generations of butterflies
are born and die during this time, it is unclear how they know to find
their way back, but they do.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Every autumn, millions, perhaps a
billion, butterflies from wide areas of North America return to the site
and cluster on small areas of the forest reserve, coloring its trees
orange and literally bending their branches under their collective
weight," UNESCO described.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But the butterflies' winter home is threatened by logging and the planting of avocado farms, according to NPR. Between
2005 and 2006, loggers felled 461 hectares in the area, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/second-man-with-ties-to-mexicos-largest-monarch-butterfly-reserve-found-dead/2020/02/02/d655c3b4-460b-11ea-91ab-ce439aa5c7c1_story.html" target="_blank">The Washington Post reported</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gómez
González, a former logger himself, campaigned to protect the reserve
and argued that tourism from the butterfly migration was worth more to
the region than illegal logging. The El Rosario sanctuary he managed
opened in November to help prevent logging, BBC News reported, and his
family said he received threats before he disappeared Jan. 13.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His funeral on Friday was widely attended.</font></p>
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<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I offer my condolences to Mr. Gómez González's family, his colleagues and all of those who, in Mexico and elsewhere,
sometimes at the risk of their lives, work every day to protect this
natural heritage which is shared by all of humanity," Director of the
World Heritage Centre Mechtild Rössler said in a <a href="https://whc.unesco.org/en/news/2080/" target="_blank">statement</a>.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Gómez
González was found to have received a blow to the head before drowning
in a well, BBC News reported. His death was apparently not a robbery,
since he was found with the equivalent of more than $500 in pesos,
according to NPR.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hernández Romero worked showing tourists around the El Rosario sanctuary, according to The Washington Post.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was last seen Jan. 27 leaving his home, and then found dead Saturday after having been badly beaten with a sharp object.</font></p><p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Authorities are unclear if the deaths are connected to each other or to both men's work protecting the butterflies. However, The Guardian
yyy pointed out that there is a trend of environmental defenders being
murdered in Mexico in conflicts with developers or criminal groups.
Mexico's murder rate is also generally on the rise, BBC News reported.
In 2019, the country saw its highest murder rate ever with 34,582
reported killed.</font></p>
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