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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2009

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When is a protected butterfly no longer protected? The answer seems to be when it gets in the way of big business interests, or so a recent case in the USA indicates. The US Fish and Wildlife Service decided in mid-March that part of a mountain containing federally protected butterflies could be bulldozed as long as other areas were maintained in perpetuity for conservation purposes.

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