Mexico Raids Mills Near Butterfly Reserve
December 6, 2007 By MARK STEVENSON, Associated Press Writer
A couple of monarch butterflies are seen on a tree at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in the central Mexican town of Cerro Prieto in this Nov. 25, 2007 file photo. Mexican President Felipe Calderon recently announced a plan to pump pesos into a monarch butterfly reserve to boost tourism in an impoverished area where illegal logging threatens the monarch\'s habitat. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)
(AP) -- Police raided clandestine sawmills near a threatened nature reserve where Monarch butterflies nest in the winter, arresting 45 people and confiscating enough illegally logged wood to fill 600 heavy trucks, the government said Thursday.
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