They find dead environmental activist who had been missing for more than two weeks

The #FGEMich, reports that he was located without life, Homero Gómez González, reported missing on January 14, in the municipality of Ocampo; The body was transferred to the Forensic Medical Service for a law autopsy. In brief, more information. pic.twitter.com/56Q8dxnAcb

– Attorney General of the State of Michoacán (@FiscaliaMich) January 29, 2020

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These areas are considered sanctuaries and have been included among the natural beauties that are part of the Reserve of
the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere, declared a World Heritage Site by Unesco in 2008.

According to the Michoacán Human Rights Commission, Gomez’s fight against illegal logging of trees in these areas
Natural could have affected the interests of those who benefited from this practice outside the law.

According to a World Wildlife Fund (WWF) report, clandestine logging has a negative effect on the
life cycle of these colorful insects, recognized for their resistance and for making long seasonal migrations from Canada to Mexico.

According to the statement from the State Prosecutor’s Office of Michoacán, the body was found in a pot of handmade water from
agricultural use, with an extension of 10 square meters and a depth of six meters, whose capacity was halfway, The body was transferred to the Forensic Medical Service to perform the corresponding autopsy.

The News It caused shock because it is the second death of an activist in recent days. On Saturday they also found
the body of Isabel Cabanillas, member of the NGO Daughters of Our Mother Maquilera. The 26-year-old feminist had disappeared on Friday, a day before she was found lifeless in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua.

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