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摘要

Forty-four percent of the Mexican fir forests where migrating monarch butterflies take shelter have been damaged or destroyed in the past three decades, leaving the fluttering creatures vulnerable to cold and exhaustion. Now Mexican president Felipe Calderon has announced an additional $4.6 million investment in his country's 139,000-acre Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.The sanctuary already gets $36.4 million annually, an investment credited with reducing illegal logging by 48 percent in the past year.