A Win for Monarch Butterflies at Mexico Summit? Howard LaFranchi - The Christian Science Monitor
go to original February 21, 2014

Studies show the number of Monarch butterflies making their annual migration is dwindling. So much so, experts are worried they are in danger of disappearing altogether. (KSBW Action News 8)

TOLUCA, Mexico - Somewhere in their discussions of trade-facilitating measures, energy integration, and border infrastructures, the three North American leaders found time in their summit Wednesday for the butterflies.

Flanked by US President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Steven Harper, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto announced at the conclusion of the trilateral meeting here that the countries agreed to set up a task force to devise a plan for saving the continent’s endangered migration of monarch butterflies.

“We have agreed to conserve the monarch butterfly as an emblematic species of North America which unites our three countries,” Mr. Peña Nieto said.

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