It is one of the world's greatest wildlife spectacles.

这是世界上最伟大的野生动物奇观之一。

No one really knows how they wake up in Canada

没有人真正知道它们是如何在加拿大醒来的。

At the end of summer one day and like I gonna go to Mexico,

夏末的一天，我要去墨西哥，

and they fly across the United States to the mountains of Mexico.

它们飞越美国飞到墨西哥的山脉。

But the migration of the monarch butterflies to this United Nations protected biosphere,

但是帝王蝴蝶迁徙到这个受联合国保护的生物圈，

isn't the only mystery lurking under the canopy.

并不是唯一隐藏在树冠下的秘密。

In early 2020 the suspicious death of Homero Gomez Gonzalez treating global media as a savior for the Monarchs shook the reserve.

2020年初，将全球媒体视为君主救世主的Homero Gomez Gonzalez离奇死亡，震惊了自然保护区。

Why did he die?

他为什么死了？

VOA went to investigate,

VOA去调查，

and found a fear so intense that even the local journalists we hired asked to remain anonymous.

我们感到了强烈的恐惧，以至于我们雇佣的当地记者都要求匿名。

Gomez Gonzalez's body turned up in an irrigation well with a blow to his skull.

Gomez Gonzalez的尸体在一口灌溉井中被发现，他的头骨受到了一击。

Authorities called it an accident.

当局称这是意外。

A local source who asked for anonymity to avoid reprisal showed us documents,

一位要求匿名以避免报复的当地消息人士给我们看了文件，

allegedly placing Gomez Gonzalez in a fight with a pond of Angangueo over water rights.

据称，Gomez Gonzalez为了水域权与一群安哥拉人发生了冲突。

Officials they are declined to be interviewed.

他们拒绝接受采访。

Aware that Gomez Gonzalez was a former logger,

意识到Gomez Gonzalez曾是一名伐木工人

we tracked into the most sensitive part of the reserve,the core zone.

我们追踪到保护区最敏感的部分，核心区。

Cutting these oyamel firs is strictly forbidden.

这里严禁砍伐这些冷杉。

Sitacallo is supposed to be a protected area.

西塔卡洛应该是一个保护区。

This is part of the biosphere where the monarch butterfly overwinters.

这是黑脉金斑蝶越冬的生物圈的一部分。

However, we are seeing logging.

然而，我们看到的是伐木。

It is rare to see signs of illegal logging firsthand and dangerous.

非法砍伐的迹象是罕见的、第一手的，也是危险的。

People is really afraid of going out there and actually be in the area,

人们真的很害怕去那里，而实际上是在这个地区，

because in the state of Michoacan they were…when the logging is happening,

在米却肯州伐木的时候，

people even are have arms,firearms with that.

人们甚至有武器，带着枪械。

The job of protecting the reserve is shared.

维护自然保护区的工作是大家共同承担的。

The Mexican federal government, Michoacan,the state of Mexico and the World Wildlife Fund,a conservation group,all play a role.

墨西哥联邦政府、米却肯州、墨西哥州和世界野生动物基金会(一个保护组织)都要承担。

Yep, local farm communes and indigenous communities own most of the land.

是的，当地的农场社区和土著社区拥有大部分土地。

Many say the nineteen eighty men that created the reserve took away their livelihoods.

许多人说，创建保护区的1980人夺走了他们的生计。

We used to take advantage of the forest.

我们过去常利用森林。

We would extract wood for the houses and selling.

我们会为房子采伐木材并出售。

We were also planting corns and beans,

我们还种了玉米和豆子，

but only to supplement our income,

但只是为了补充我们的收入，

most of which came from the forest.

其中大部分来自森林。

Authorities promised tourism would fill the gap,

当局承诺旅游业将填补这一空白，

but not all areas have benefited.

但并非所有地区都从中受益。

34 communal lands inside the core zone get compensation if they conserve the forest.

核心区内的34个公共土地如果保护森林，就能得到补偿。

But even with the money her in-laws received,Anabel Garcia Ortega struggles to feed her family,

即使Anabel Garcia Ortega的公婆收到钱，也还是艰难养活她的家人。

so she sells colourful napkins to tourists.

所以她卖给游客五颜六色的餐巾贴补家用。

It takes her for hours to sell just one.

她花了几个小时才卖了一个。

I earn 30 pesos per napkin.

我每张餐巾赚30比索。

I have four children,including a one-year old,

我有四个孩子，包括一个一岁的孩子，

So I have to buy him milk, diapers,

所以我得给他买牛奶、尿布

and my husband's salary is just not enough.

我丈夫的薪水还不够。

30 pesos equals one US dollar and 26 cents.

30比索等于1美元26美分。

By comparison loggers can get up to 28 US dollars per cubic meter of wood.

相比之下，伐木工人每立方米木材可达28美元。

Butterflies pay the price.

蝴蝶要付出代价。

Eliminating the forest cover leads to problems of erosion,

减少森林覆盖会导致土地侵蚀问题、土地流失、泉水流失，

and of course endangers the microclimatic conditions that the Monarch Butterfly needs.

当然也会危及帝王蝴蝶所需要的微观气候条件。

The biosphere's director has only ten staffers to monitor a hundred and thirty-eight thousand acres of land.

生物圈的主管只有十名工作人员，来监督十三万八千英亩的土地。

After seeing our illegal logging video,

在看了我们的非法伐木录像后，

he asked the National Guard to investigate,

他要求国民警卫队进行调查，

but he said the people must help.

但是他说，当地的人们必须提供帮助。

There's no other option nut to continue monitoring and coordinating with the locals.

除了继续监控和协调当地人外没有其他选择。

They are key in these kinds of situations,

在这种情况下，他们是关键，

particularly in this area,to try and stop it.

尤其是在这个地区试图阻止滥伐的时候。

And to identify alternatives for people who argue that they don't have other sources of income.

并为那些认为自己没有其他收入来源的人找出其他选择。

Large-scale illegal logging has damaged the reserve in recent years.

近年来，大规模非法采伐破坏了保护区。

That has stopped,but World Wildlife Fund-Mexico said,

这种现象已经停止了，但是世界野生动物基金会墨西哥分会说，

our video showed the oyamels still are in safe.

我们的视频显示冷杉仍然安全。

Yeah, that is one of the most important traits right now in terms of the demography of the forest.

是的，这是目前森林物种统计中最重要的特征之一。

We wanted to keep reporting to learn more about the price of sustainability,

我们想继续报道，以了解更多关于可持续发展的代价，

for both the butterfly and these poor communities,

对蝴蝶和这些贫穷的社区来说，

and to find out if water disputes or illegal logging had anything to do with Romero Gomez Gonzalez's death,

为了查明水纠纷或非法伐木是否与Romero Gomez Gonzalez的死亡有关，

but for our own safety we left Michoacan in a hurry after locals warned us we were being watched.

但是为了我们自己的安全，在当地人警告我们我们正在被监视之后，我们匆忙离开了米却肯州。

The Monarchs migration would soon follow us to north,

帝王蝶很快就会在我们走后向北迁徙，

but the mysteries we came to unravel stayed behind.

但我们要解开的谜团却留在了身后。

For VOA news,Veronica Balderas Iglesias, Michoacan Mexico

VOA新闻，Veronica Balderas Iglesias墨西哥米却肯州报道

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