Workers tend to oyamel fir tree sprouts at a reforestation project outside the Sierra Chincua Biosphere Reserve January 20, 2020 in Angangueo, Michoacan, Mexico. Millions of migrating monarch butterflies rely on the massive fir trees for overwintering which have been cut by illegal logging in the Central Mexican mountains.

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Location: Angangueo, Michoacán, Mexico
Photo credit: © Richard Ellis / Alamy / Afripics
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