The Sacramento Bee reported on NAFTA’s recent decision to support efforts to conserve the Monarch Butterfly. The Sacramento Bee said
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.
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