Will the Monarch butterfly survive this winter?
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This article is published in collaboration with Quartz.
Monarch butterflies are arriving in much larger numbers to their wintering grounds in Mexico than in the past couple of years, when their population shrank to record lows. But the orange-winged insects are not in the clear yet, with unusually abundant rain and cold weather expected in the forests where they settle until the spring.
In Mexico, officials and nonprofits are helping farmers develop butterfly tourism as an alternative to cutting down forests—though after illegal logging dropped to virtually zero, felled forest acres have been on the rise the past three years.
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Author: Ana Campoy is a Latin America Reporter for Quartz.
Image: A monarch butterfly clings to a plant. REUTERS/Michael Fiala.
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