In recent years, Mexico has been reeling from a relentless increase in homicides, a trend that President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has been unable to reverse in the 14 months he has been in office. Last year, the nation recorded more than 34,500 murders, the highest annual tally since the late 1990s when the government started keeping such data.
Mr. Gómez’s body was found in the municipality of Ocampo in northeastern Michoacán, where he had disappeared, in a large tank designed to capture rainwater, said Magdalena Guzmán, a spokeswoman for the state prosecutor’s office in Michoacán.
Investigators had not yet determined a cause of death, she said in an interview late Wednesday.
The disappearance of Mr. Gómez struck Mexico particularly hard, in part because he had devoted himself to the protection of an iconic and widely loved feature of the country’s natural environment.
Millions of the orange-and-black monarch butterflies arrive in Mexico starting in October after flying as far as 3,000 miles from the eastern regions of the United States and Canada. They make the return trip in March.
The monarch is the only species of butterfly known to make a two-way migration akin to the round-trip migration of birds, according to the United States Forest Service.
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