Since the year 2000, the Monarch Butterfly Fund has helped to decrease illegal logging in the Monarch butterflies’ hibernation habitat, located in the core area of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, under the managed by the National Commission of Protected Areas. In 2021, thanks to conservation, surveillance, and pest and fire detection activities carried out by agricultural communities, project partners identified 2,594 hectares in the process of being restored. In addition, the updating of legal instruments and adjustments to the environmental services payment mechanism made sure that the disbursements to the 33 agricultural communities, through the National Forestry Commission’s Mexican Forestry Found were timely and cost-effective.
Video “Synergy for Conservation”, Monarch Fund.