anyone interested in writing a paper on ecotourism?

This story from this morning's NPR Morning Edition might be a good place to begin your research...

NPR : Living in the Shadow of a Million Butterflies: "Millions of Monarch butterflies are now in the fir forests of central Mexico, having made the 2,000-mile journey from their breeding grounds in North America to their winter retreat.

Scientists hail the annual migration as one of nature's great mysteries. But as NPR's Lourdes Garcia-Navarro reports, some of those who live in the area the butterflies descend upon from November to March see it as a mixed blessing. [...]"