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Winged Messengers: How Monarch Butterflies Connect Culture and Conservation in Mexico

Winged Messengers: How Monarch Butterflies Connect Culture and Conservation in Mexico

November 1, 2022

Every year at the beginning of November, Mexico is set alight with the sights, smells and sounds of its Día de los Muertos (Day of…

Winged Messengers: How Monarch Butterflies Connect Culture and Conservation in Mexico

How to save the endangered monarch butterfly

How to save the endangered monarch butterfly

August 3, 2022

LISTEN: Jose Luis Alvarez, co-founder of Forests for Monarchs, and Martha Askins, a retired lawyer, discuss the beauty of the monarch butterfly, and conservation efforts to…

How to save the endangered monarch butterfly

Contepec se dedicó a plantar árboles y sembrar vida en “La Golondrina” del Cerro Altamirano

Contepec se dedicó a plantar árboles y sembrar vida en “La Golondrina” del Cerro Altamirano

July 18, 2022

El Ayuntamiento de Contepec convocó a participar en la “Campaña de Reforestación” en el lugar denominado “La Golondrina”, ubicado en las inmediaciones del Cerro Altamirano,…

Contepec se dedicó a plantar árboles y sembrar vida en “La Golondrina” del Cerro Altamirano

How The Mexican Avocado Industry Is Helping Save The Monarch Butterflies

How The Mexican Avocado Industry Is Helping Save The Monarch Butterflies

June 22, 2021

(BPT) - Pollinator species like birds, bees and butterflies are essential to the survival of plants that bring us fruits and vegetables. But many of…

How The Mexican Avocado Industry Is Helping Save The Monarch Butterflies

Planting a forest to protect Mexico’s butterflies

Planting a forest to protect Mexico’s butterflies

January 14, 2019

Monarch butterflies are a deep orange with black, tiger-like stripes, and white spots along the edges of their wings. They look spectacular - especially during…

Planting a forest to protect Mexico’s butterflies

The Mexican man who planted a forest

The Mexican man who planted a forest

January 14, 2019

Monarch butterflies are a deep orange with black, tiger-like stripes, and white spots along the edges of their wings. They look spectacular - especially during…

The Mexican man who planted a forest

Butterfly demonstration in Burlington

Butterfly demonstration in Burlington

August 30, 2016

BURLINGTON, Vt. — The ECHO Leahy Center for Lake Champlain played host to a colorful demonstration Tuesday, to raise awareness for the decline of the…

Butterfly demonstration in Burlington

Greenwich Audubon to host Mexican expert on the monarch

Greenwich Audubon to host Mexican expert on the monarch

August 28, 2016

GREENWICH — Audubon Greenwich has invited a Mexico-based conservationist to talk about monarch butterflies. Jose Luis Alvarez, who is leading a regional reforestation effort in…

Greenwich Audubon to host Mexican expert on the monarch

A Cross-Border Collaboration To Protect Monarch Butterfly Habitat

A Cross-Border Collaboration To Protect Monarch Butterfly Habitat

August 20, 2016

Monarch butterflies are known for epic migrations, traveling thousands of miles every year. Their route can span from Mexico to Canada, which makes it difficult…

A Cross-Border Collaboration To Protect Monarch Butterfly Habitat

Flight to Plight: Witnessing the Imperiled Migration of the Monarchs

Flight to Plight: Witnessing the Imperiled Migration of the Monarchs

June 3, 2014

BREATHING HARD IN THE THIN MOUNTAIN AIR, we reached the trail’s end at the top of Sierra Chincua, a 10,000-foot-high biosphere reserve and world heritage…

Flight to Plight: Witnessing the Imperiled Migration of the Monarchs
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