寒星物语

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/monarch-butterflies-essick.html

Migrating Monarchs, El Rosario Preserve, Mexico, 2004
Photograph by Peter Essick

A colony of monarch butterflies clings to a tree in the El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve in the mountains of central Mexico. The Mexican government is working to encourage tourism and discourage illegal logging in the preserve, where millions of these delicate orange-and-black butterflies come to nest each winter.

(Photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, “Signs From Earth: Heating Up…Melting Down…” September 2004, National Geographic magazine)

译文:

移动的君主,El Rosario保护区,墨西哥,2004
摄影:Peter Essick

位于墨西哥中部山脉El Rosario蝴蝶自然保护区里，一群君主蝶依附在树干上。每年，数以百万计这种橙黑相间的精致蝴蝶来这里过冬，墨西哥政府正在鼓励开展旅游观光，同时阻止保护区内的非法伐木。

(照片来源于《来自土地的征兆：加热…熔化…》(2004年9月,国家地理杂志)未发表部分)