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1997 North American Conference on the Monarch Butterfly

(Disponible en anglais et espagnol)

Description

Probably no other species in North America better illustrates the challenges of nature conservation and sustainable development, among and within countries, than the monarch butterfly.

The importance of international cooperation for achieving conservation of the remarkable migration phenomenon has been highlighted in 1981 by R. Pyle (1984). In his concluding remarks at the First International Symposium on the Biology and Conservation of the Monarch Butterfly (Moncon-1) he stated that no one nation, of the three sharing responsibility for conserving the endangered migration of the monarch butterfly, could do it alone. Furthermore, participants in that conference reached consensus in identifying the main challenges to saving the monarch. These challenges were to protect Mexican and US overwintering sites and all other ecological needs of the monarch, and to find alternative sources of income for local inhabitants to compensate for loss of revenue related to conservation efforts.

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