(Source: WWF - World Wildlife Fund) For generations, the residents of a small, rural slice of Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains have pursued their livelihoods at the expense of the monarch butterfly. Now, locals and the migrating insects have forged an unlikely alliance. Phil Primack travels to Michoacán to investigate. AS THE PEOPLE AROUND HIM huff and puff their way along a rocky trail 10,000 feet up in Mexico's Sierra Madre mountains, Javier Martínez Colín walks with the easy gait of a man in familiar territory. The 56-year-old chairman of his local ejido, or agricultural collective, says little as the path narrows and the forest grows denser. The group is entering the Sierra Chincua...
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