Butterflies Worth Less Than Wood

The migrations of the Monarch butterfly from Canada and the US to the Michoacán region of Mexico where they roost in pine trees is said to be one of the most impressive natural history spectacles. There are reports of a conservationist and a guide recently finishing up dead in this region under suspicious circumstances (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/08/monarch-butterflies-under-threat-mexico-aoe). There seems to be a very real possibility that criminal gangs of loggers desiring the roosting trees are implicated.