OCAMPO, Mexico (AFP) — Every year, millions of North America’s endangered migratory monarch butterflies embark on a 4,000-kilometer (2,500-mile) journey from Canada to Mexico’s wintering grounds, in order to hibernate in the pine trees of Mexico’s western mountains.
‘Migrant’ monarch butterflies arrive in Mexico for winter
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