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Update (February 3): A second man connected with one of Mexico’s largest butterfly sanctuaries is dead. The body of Raúl Hernández Romero, 44, was found on Saturday, February 1, with injuries that suggest he had been beaten with a sharp object. Authorities do not yet know if Hernández Romero's death and the death of Homero Gómez González are related or if the deaths are tied to the men's environmental conservation efforts, The Washington Post reports.
The body of Homero Gómez González, a fierce defender of central Mexico’s monarch butterfly population, was found floating in a well on Wednesday (January 29), The Washington Post reports.
Gómez González, 50, disappeared on January 13. Immediately afterward, local authorities launched a search to find him, and the state attorney general began investigating his disappearance. People who claimed to have kidnapped him started to call his family and demand ransom payments, ...
