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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;areich, post: 1508505, member: 37479&quot;]<b>The Republic of Mexico and Danaus Plexippus (what??)</b></p><p><br /></p><p>I can remember in the year of 1975, when my children were still in grade school and playing with blocks on the living room floor, that seemingly marvelous news came over the television with full color images of the miracle of the Mexican Migration point for all the eastern North American Monarch Butterflies located in Michoacan, Mexico.&nbsp; This was amazing news.&nbsp; Who knew that Butterflies migrated, let alone that nearly billions of them converged in a single forested area.&nbsp;&nbsp; Dr. Frederick Urquhart knew, but he couldn&#039;t find where all the Monarch butterflies disappeared to until two of his volunteers, Ken Brugger and&nbsp; Catalina Aguada found the eighth wonder of the world on remote mountain top near the residence of the Purépecha Indians.</p><p><br /></p><p>Since that time, Mexico has made efforts to preserve the habitat of the Monarch&#039;s winter hibernation spot, and have made logging in the area illegal.&nbsp; In 1980, President Lopez Portillo issues presidential decrees declaring protection of the butterflies all across the nation.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>More than 139,000 acres with oak, pine-oak, pine, and oyamel fir forests have been made a reserve and two buffer zones.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the local peoples still log the areas even at great risk and government control, as is often the case in Mexico, has been spotty.&nbsp; In resent years, single events have killed off millions of the insects at once, and they&#039;re future well-being is dependent on an intact sizable forest that can sustain a microclimates that the Monarch Butterfly needs to survive.</p><p><br /></p><p>[video]http://video.nationalgeographic.com/video/kids/animals-pets-kids/bugs-kids/monarch-butterflies-kids/[/video]</p><p><br /></p><p>[video]http://video.pbs.org/video/1063682334/[/video]</p><p><a href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/mexico/themonarchbutterflyreserve.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/mexico/themonarchbutterflyreserve.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.worldwildlife.org/what/wherewework/mexico/themonarchbutterflyreserve.html</a></p><p><a href="http://www.monarchmonitoringproject.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.monarchmonitoringproject.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.monarchmonitoringproject.com/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]194543.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]194544.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/" rel="nofollow">http://www.monarchwatch.org/</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>this final coin, perhaps the most elegant of the set, was minted proudly in the Mexican City Mint, 30,000 proof coins of a heafty 31.103 grams of 0.720 silver.&nbsp; It is a 100 Pesos denomination</p><p><br /></p><p>Check it out <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_banner.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_bannerb.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_one_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_one_r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_three_r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_twob_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_two_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_twoc_o.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.mrbrklyn.com/wwf/monarch_two_r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b><span style="color: #FF0000"><font face="Arial Black"><font size="7">DONE!!</font></font></span></b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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