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hatrack

(59,594 posts)
Fri Feb 21, 2014, 10:45 AM Feb 2014

There, We Fixed It! NAFTA "Working Group" Established For Monarch Butterfly

I'm sure this will take care of things . . .

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The monarch, which has seen its numbers plunge in recent years, arose as a topic when President Enrique Pena Nieto hosted President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a meeting Wednesday to review the North American Free Trade Agreement, which created the world’s largest trade zone 20 years ago.

“We have agreed to conserve the monarch butterfly as an emblematic species of North America which unites our three countries,” Pena Nieto told business leaders who’d gathered for the one-day summit in the industrial city of Toluca, about 40 miles west of Mexico City.

In a final statement, amid weighty pronouncements on energy, immigration, border security and job creation, the monarch butterfly earned its place.

“Our governments will establish a working group to ensure the conservation of the monarch butterfly, a species that symbolizes our association,” the statement said.

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http://www.sacbee.com/2014/02/20/6175602/nafta-leaders-put-saving-monarch.html

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