Mexican poet Homero Aridjis has been working to save Monarch Butterflies for decades. He was one of the people who persuaded the Mexican government to create the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in 1986. Here’s a story about him:

“Saving monarch butterflies stirs the ‘poetical soul’ of Homero Aridjis,” Gary G. Yerkey, Christian Science Monitor, June 6, 2011