Most people don’t know that there is a connection between the monarch butterfly and avocados from Mexico. The monarch butterfly migrates thousands of miles to Mexico to winter in rare oyamel fir trees. They have done this for 10,000 years.
That small area, and the buffer zone around it, are being destroyed to grow avocados, because of the high demand in the United States. There is big money in growing avocados, and cartels have become involved in and have taken over some farms.
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