摘要
为了拯救帝王斑蝶,墨西哥科学家正把一座森林往山上迁移1000英尺法兰希斯科·拉米雷兹·克鲁兹在儿时很喜欢跟在祖父身后爬上墨西哥中部的高山:在祖父放羊吃草或者采集野生蘑菇的时候,拉米雷兹就会在成群的帝王斑蝶之间玩耍。那些蝴蝶每年秋天都会迁徙3000英里(约4800公里)来到这片森林,将蓝天变成一片的橘色。
To save the monarch butteifly,Mexican scientists are moving a forest 1,000feet up a mountain As a boy,Francisco Ramirez Cruz*loved hiking with his grandfather up into the mountains of central Mexico.While the old man grazed sheep or hunted for wild mushrooms,Ramirez would play amid the throngs of monarch butterflies that migrated 3,000 miles to this forest each autumn,turning the blue sky into a sea of orange.Ramirez is 75 now,himself a 1 great-grandfather,and each winter he still goes looking for butterflies.But these days,he might spend hours searching the forest without catching sight of a single one.
