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Monarch butterfly numbers in Mexico rise by 35 percent

(25 May 2022) MEXICO BUTTERFLIES SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTION SUMMARY: LENGTH: 2:37 ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: El Rosario – 27 November 2021 1. Monarch butterflies settled on oyamel trees ASSOCIATED PRESS Mexico City - 24 May 2022 2. Wide of press conference 3. Cutaway of camera operators 4. Wide of press conference 5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Tavera Alonso, Director Mexico's Commission for National Protected Areas: "There was going to be some extreme conditions of tremendous heat and drought in the months of April and May, but the monarchs took off earlier and started reproducing in Texas much sooner. There was enough nectar, so they began to reproduce, they had more food and began to hatch this tremendously vigorous first generation." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: El Rosario – 27 November 2021 6. Various of swarms of monarch butterflies settled on oyamel trees ASSOCIATED PRESS Mexico City - 24 May 2022 7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Tavera Alonso, Director Mexico's Commission for National Protected Areas: "Three hectares of the monarch butterfly core zone were deforested. But we are talking about less than 1 percent of the 13,500 hectares that are the core zone of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: El Rosario – 27 November 2021 8. Visitors walking 9. Visitors watching butterflies 10. Butterfly perched on an oyamel tree leaf ASSOCIATED PRESS Mexico City - 24 May 2022 11. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Gloria Tavera Alonso, Director Mexico's Commission for National Protected Areas: "We are witnessing in real time the adaptation of monarch butterflies to climate change. For the last three seasons we observed that the monarchs had been leaving much earlier; they were very active in December, began to reproduce in January and were leaving earlier to migrate back to the north of the continent." ASSOCIATED PRESS ARCHIVE: El Rosario – 27 November 2021 12. Tourists looking at butterflies 13. Various of butterflies flying in the treetops 14. Various of a butterfly perched on a tourist 15. Various of butterflies at the sanctuary 16. Tourists at butterfly sanctuary 17. Close of butterfly LEAD IN: The number of monarch butterflies arriving in Mexico to spend the winter in mountaintop forests rose 35 percent this year compared to last season. Experts say the rise may reflect the butterflies’ ability to adapt to more extreme bouts of heat or drought by shifting when they leave Mexico. STORYLINE: Monarch butterflies cover the trees at a reserve in El Rosario. This year, there has been a huge increase in the number spending the winter in Mexico. The Mexican government commission for natural protected areas said the butterflies’ population covered 2.84 hectares (7 acres) this year, compared to 2.1 hectares (5.2 acres) last year. The annual butterfly count doesn’t calculate the individual number of butterflies, but rather the number of acres they cover when they clump together on tree boughs. The rise comes despite deforestation. Gloria Tavera Alonso, the regional director of Mexico’s Commission for National Protected Areas, says logging in the butterflies’ wintering ground rose by about 4.5 percent this year, to 13.9 hectares (34 acres). However, fewer trees were lost to fire, drought or plant diseases and pests. So overall tree loss in the 2021-22 season was about 18.8 hectares (46 acres), down from 20.6 hectares ( 51 acres) in the 2020-21 season. The butterflies traditionally arrive in the mountaintop pine and fir forests west of Mexico City around the beginning of November. They normally leave for the U.S. and Canada in March. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...