The new wonders of UNESCO: the reserve of Mariposa Monarca Mexico
I have resisted throwing down this small post, linked to that of Sara on new World Heritage Sites, because the photographs of butterflies Danaus plexippus, which we ordinary mortals know as Monarch butterfly (mariposa stands for butterfly in Spanish) are really spectacular and why, have included the Mexican reserves of Mariposa Monarca, in the Mexican state of Michoacan, among the sites protected by UNESCO of humanity, makes me more tolerant toward gender homo sapiens.
If you think that exaggerating try to talk with the North Americans, as if Mexicans have protected one of the most important breeding areas, the Americans and Canadians should not be less given that (from wikipedia)
Monarch is the insect national State dell’Alabama, Idaho, Illinois and Texas, and the national butterfly in Minnesota, Vermont and West Virginia. In 1989 she was named national insect” in the United States of America and insect national of Canada.
These butterflies do the incredible crossings from Canada and the United States up to these eastern highlands where Mexican breed during the winter period. The concentration of Mariupol’s in these areas is incredible if it is true that it is estimated that more than 14 million butterflies are reflected in all and half a hectare of surface. A set ideal for photographs or movies of its kind National Geographic.