Deadline for Symbolic Migration: October 14, 2003

Included in this Reminder:

• Postmark Deadline is October 14
• Check Your Steps--Did You "Check" the Checklist?
• Your Donations at Work--"We're Helping Monarchs"
• For Complete Informaton on How to Participate
• What's Next for Your Butterflies?

1) Print the Migration Checklist and read the packing information carefully.

2) Follow the mailing instructions on the Migration Checklist exactly.

3) Check each box as you complete each task.

4) Enclose the Migration Checklist with your butterflies

The forest sanctuaries are not adequately protected, and logging still threatens this very habitat that monarchs need to survive. But saving the Sanctuaries is a challenge, because the people who live there are very poor and they depend on the forest for survival too, just like the monarchs.

Please write checks to: The Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation and enclose with your butterflies.

The Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation (MBSF) is a non-profit organization working to find ways for the monarchs and the people to coexist in the Sanctuaries. One example is the exciting reforestation project now underway in the Monarch Sanctuary area, through a collaboration of Journey North, MBSF and the Michoacan Reforestation Fund.

Look What's Growing!
Funds that students across the U.S. and Canada donated during last year's Symbolic Migration purchased trees for this reforestation project that were planted by Mexican children who live beside the sanctuaries. On June 20th, the school children planted 7,500 pine seedlings in an area that had been damaged by fire and illegal logging. The students and the teachers will benefit in the future as the trees grow under their regular care. Reforestation stops erosion, which protects the soil and water. The forest products also provide economic income and materials, which are thought to take pressure off the forests at higher elevations used by the monarchs.

Pictures, video and more information about this project are here

• Let's watch the children and the trees grow together!
• Each year another grove will be planted.
• Each tree costs fifty cents.

We hope you'll support this effort!

• Symbolic Migration 2003-2004
  

Coming in our next report on October 21:

• Watch the Flurry: Peek in on your Butterflies at the Staging Grounds
  

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