{"id":2527,"date":"2014-02-19T23:31:59","date_gmt":"2014-02-20T07:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2014-02-20T00:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-02-20T08:18:22","slug":"mexico-us-canada-leaders-agree-to-form-working-group-on-conservation-of-monarch-butterflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/02\/19\/mexico-us-canada-leaders-agree-to-form-working-group-on-conservation-of-monarch-butterflies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexico, US, Canada leaders agree to form working group on conservation of Monarch butterflies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2538\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2538\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/640px-Monarch_In_May.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2538\" alt=\"Female Monarch butterfly (Wikipedia photo)\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/640px-Monarch_In_May-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/640px-Monarch_In_May-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/640px-Monarch_In_May.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Female Monarch butterfly (Wikipedia photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>MEXICO CITY &#8211; Mexico, the United States and Canada have agreed to form a working group on the conservation of Monarch butterflies, whose numbers fell to record lows this year at their wintering grounds in central Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto announced the decision Wednesday at the end of a one-day summit with U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper.<\/p>\n<p>Experts say the butterflies&#8217; annual migration from the United States and Canada is in danger because of extreme weather, habitat loss due to deforestation and the displacement of milkweed, the Monarchs&#8217; main food source.<\/p>\n<p>Pena Nieto did not announce any specific measures.<\/p>\n<p>The World Wildlife Fund in Mexico called the announcement an important step, but said concrete measures are needed to protect the butterflies&#8217; habitat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; MEXICO CITY &#8211; Mexico, the United States and Canada have agreed to form a working group on the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":2538,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[405,379,404],"class_list":["post-2527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news-w","tag-butterflies","tag-mexico","tag-monarch","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}