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Saturday, November 18, 2017
Monarch monitoring reveals new routes The butterflies cross into Mexico along the entire US border, volunteers find
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Monarch monitoring reveals new routes
The butterflies cross into Mexico along the entire US border, volunteers find
Greater environmental awareness and thousands of volunteers have led to the discovery that monarch butterflies migrate south into Mexico by more routes than previously thought.
Monarchs are expected every year in the fall after following a well known route that brings them into the country through the northern border states of Coahuila, Nuevo León and Tamaulipas.
But volunteers in a network that monitors the insects’ movements have helped establish that isn’t so.
The Monarch Butterfly National Monitoring Network, which has been in operation for three years, now has some 15,000 volunteers who participate in monitoring the butterflies in collaboration with the Natural Protected Areas Commission (Conanp), the National Commission for the Knowledge and Use of Biodiversity (Conabio) and the Mexico office of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).
The monarchs actually cross the entire length of the Mexico-United States border, entering the country via the other three border states — Baja California, Sonora and Chihuahua — as well, and continue on their journey through Zacatecas, Aguascalientes, Jalisco, San Luis Potosí, Guanajuato, Querétaro and Hidalgo.
” . . . That’s what monarchs do,” explained Conanp’s Gloria Tavera Alonso, “they decide where to cross depending on the climate and the wind [currents].”
The acting CEO of WWF México added that because of several climate factors this year’s monarch migration was unusual, and even now some are still in transit over northern states.
But most are already in the forests where they will spend the winter, said Jorge Eduardo Rickards Campbell.
Conanp chief Alejandro del Mazo Maza declared that given the results of observations of the butterflies en route south this year, more of them are expected to arrive and spend the winter than last year.
As the monarchs arrive in the states of México and Michoacán so will the tourists. The 13 butterfly sanctuaries in the Monarch Biosphere Reserve in those two states expect to receive over 200,000 visitors before the insects leave early in the spring.
Source: Milenio (sp)
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2.7bn pesos allocated for Oaxaca roadwork Earthquakes and hurricanes left damages to 87% of the state's road infrastructure
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2.7bn pesos allocated for Oaxaca roadwork
Earthquakes and hurricanes left damages to 87% of the state's road infrastructure
The federal government has allocated 2.7 billion pesos (US $142 million) for repairs and new construction of highways in Oaxaca.
September’s earthquakes did some damage to the state’s roads but the rain that fell in the months before took a serious toll on highway infrastructure. In all, a whopping 87% of the state’s highways and roads sustained damage, and three bridges were destroyed.
Of the expenditures announced this week by the Secretariat of Communications and Transportation (SCT), 900 million pesos to be obtained through the federal natural disaster fund (Fonden) will be spent on road and bridge reconstruction in six of the eight geographical regions of the state.
The release of disaster relief funds was triggered by seven emergency declarations issued by the federal government for Oaxaca over the summer and early fall: two correspond to the two major earthquakes and five were issued in response to damage caused by heavy rains, hurricanes and flash flooding.
The SCT’s Oaxaca representative, Javier Lazcano Vargas, said that of the three bridges that collapsed this year two have already been rebuilt and the third, connecting the city of Ixtaltepec, should be functional by December 20.
Lazcano explained that 1.8 billion pesos are to be spent on maintenance and modernization of 3,100 kilometres of roads, including the conclusion of the highways linking Oaxaca City and Puerto Escondido, Mitla and Tehuantepec, Acayucan and La Ventosa and Puerto Escondido and Pochutla.
Among other infrastructure that suffered during an eventful summer were the 20 public markets that were destroyed. Lazcano said the SCT “adopted” the reconstruction of the market in Matías Romero, allocating 3.4 million pesos to the 300-stall project and finishing it in a record two months.
Source: Milenio (sp)
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