Symbolic monarch migration: celebrating 29 years!
Join us for the 29th annual Symbolic Monarch Migration along with youth across North America. Families, home schools, zoos and aquariums, nature centers, libraries, youth groups and classrooms are welcome to participate.
This project helps to build bridges between students in Mexico, the United States and Canada. United by the wonder of monarch butterfly migration, participating youth learn about cooperative conservation and ambassadorship as well as monarch biology and phenology.
Leader packet
Read the 2024-25 leader packet for full details on how to participate.
New this year: More printable ambassador templates! Eleven templates are now available. Directions for using the templates are included in the ambassador templates Google folder linked above.
Deadlines
- To be an early migrant, a passenger ticket ($15 fee) must be purchased by Sept. 30, 2024. The receipt must be included in the ambassador folder and postmarked by Sept. 30, 2024. Early migrants arrive in Mexico ahead of the main migration and are delivered to schools before the winter break.
- After Sept. 30, a passenger ticket ($20 fee) must be purchased by the final deadline of Oct. 18, 2024. The receipt must be included in the ambassador folder and postmarked by Oct. 18, 2024.
- All passenger tickets are purchased through Monarchs Across Georgia’s secure online registration system.
Questions? Contact symbolic-migration@eealliance.org.
Journey North
Journey North also has various educational resources to aid educators. Please refer to:
The Symbolic Monarch Migration project is a partnership project between Journey North (a program of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum) and Monarchs Across Georgia (a committee of the nonprofit organization, the Environmental Education Alliance). Journey North hosts educational materials on its website. Monarchs Across Georgia administers the project, including coordinating the exchange of symbolic butterflies among 2000+ classrooms in three countries, engaging a contract worker to provide lessons and deliver materials in Mexico, and raising funds for the project's continuation.
Monarchs Across Georgia is pleased to announce that the Monarch Butterfly Fund has agreed to support a $2,500 Request for Proposals through their Small Grant Program. The "Beyond the Mexico Book Project V" designates monies to be used to purchase books for and support the environmental education efforts in the schools surrounding the Mexican monarch sanctuaries during the 2024-25 migration season.