Instead of breeding livestock, many ranchers in Panama are switching to raising butterflies, which are much smaller animals. It is not only beneficial to the environment, but for some, it’s proven to be an economic winner.
In the Mexican state of Michoacan this year, the suspicious death of a prominent communal leader at the Monarch butterfly’s World Heritage reserve rocked the conservation world. VOA’s Veronica Balderas Iglesias went to Michoacan and found that in this place of beauty, there was an underside of lawlessness, corruption and poverty that could threaten the sustainability of the biosphere