From CNN;
Raúl Hernández Romero, a part-time guide and conservationist at Mexico's largest monarch butterfly reserve, was discovered dead Friday in the Mexican state of Michoacán, local authorities said in a statement released Saturday.
He was found with "blunt blows on different parts of the body and a head injury, caused by a sharp object," the statement said.
His wife said he was last seen January 27… the second butterfly activist to be found dead in less than a week.
Friday, the body of Homero Gomez Gonzalez was
found, also in Ocampo, in a retention pond. According to authorities, he also had a head injury and died of drowning. He had been missing since January 13.
Monarchs are under stress from chemicals, breeding areas being plowed under, and the over winter trees in Mexico threatened by illegal logging. Pollinators like butterflies and bees are critical to our food supply.