Environmental activist Homero Gomez, who fought to protect the famed monarch butterfly, has been found dead in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, a local authority said Wednesday, two weeks after he disappeared.

The activist’s body was located inside a well in a vacant lot 800 meters from the place where he was last seen in the community called El Soldado but due to the conditions of the corpse, DNA tests were requested for identification.

It’s still unclear how Gomez died though his disappearance sparked an outcry in an increasingly violent country where activists are routinely threatened, harmed or…