🌿 Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve

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The Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is a World Heritage Site containing most of the overwintering sites of the eastern population of the monarch butterfly. The reserve is located in the Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt pine-oak forests ecoregion on the border of Michoacán and State of Mexico, 100 km, northwest of Mexico City. Millions of butterflies arrive in the reserve annually. Butterflies only inhabit a fraction of the 56,000 hectares of the reserve from October–March. The biosphere's mission is to protect the butterfly species and its habitat.

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Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve is a natural World Heritage site in Mexico, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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