Mexico City (AP) – The Number of Monarch Butterflies Wintering in the Mountains West of Mexico City Repoumened this Year, Doubling The Area They Covered in 2024 Despite the Stresses of Climate Change, Experts Said Thursday.
The annual number of butterflies does not count the individual number of butterflies. Rather, the number of acres that covers them while gathering on trees branches in mountain pine forests and fir forests. Kings from the east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States and Canada over the winter there.
The Mexico Committee for National Protected Regions (Conanp) said that butterflies this year covered 4.4 acres (1.79 hectares) compared to only 2.2 acres (0.9 hectares) in the previous year. Last year’s personality It represents a decrease of 59 % from 2023, which is the second lowest level since the start of saving records.
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After winter in Mexico, butterflies fly north, and breed multiple generations along the way for thousands of miles. The offspring, which arrives in southern Canada, begins the trip to Mexico at the end of the summer.
Gloria Tavira Alonso, director of memorization at the Mexican Agency, said the improved numbers due on better climatic and moisture factors. Drought was inserted along the migratory butterflies route as a factor in last year.
TAVERA also strengthened continuous efforts to increase the number of plants on which butterflies depend for sustenance and multiplication along their corridor.
