# Rare Butterflies Threatened by Mexico’s Drug Cartels (Reupload) | Full Episode | SBS Dateline

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In this episode, first aired in 2022, Dateline travels to Mexico's spectacular butterfly forest and meets its brave defenders. But as global demand for avocados surges, cartels are looking for quick profits, putting farmers and billions of butterflies under threat.

00:00 Intro 00:47 Inside Mexico's Monarch Butterly Reserve 05:06 Why monarch butterflies face extinction 10:04 The price for defending the butterfly forests 13:35 Why drug cartels are moving into the illegal logging 18:41 The violent fight for control over the avocado trade in Michoacán 21:10 Meet the militia defending avocado farms 24:15 On a night patrol against illegal loggers

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