'I'll kill you!': Mexico's nature defenders put lives on line
Sunday, 20 Feb 2022 08:57 PM MYT
Envirormental activist Filiberta Nevado, shows illegally felled trees in the forests of the town of Zacacuautla, municipality of Acaxochitlan, Hidalgo state, Mexico. — AFP pic
MEXICO CITY, Feb 20 — In the fir forests of Mexico, one of the world’s most dangerous countries for environmentalists, the legacy of butterfly defender Homero Gomez lives on two years after his suspected murder.
Despite the dangers of standing up to illegal loggers, fellow conservationists continue Gomez’s work guarding the El Rosario monarch butterfly sanctuary in Mexico’s central highlands.
The agricultural engineer dedicated much of his life to protecting the habitat of the iconic orange and black insects, which migrate several thousand kilometres (miles) each year to Mexico, fleeing the Canadian winter.
His legacy “is in all of us,” Olegario Sanchez told AFP during a patrol through the mountains of the El Rosario sanctuary, where swarms of butterflies delight visitors with majestic aerial dances.
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