Symbolic Migration: be an early migrant!

Nearly 200 passenger tickets been purchased to date and ambassadors are arriving now!

Join us for this year's annual Symbolic Monarch Migration with youth across Mexico, the United States and Canada. With this project, youth decorate paper butterflies, called ambassadors, which are mailed and distributed to schools near the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Mexico. A passenger ticket covers costs of shipping ambassadors to and from Mexico, as well as environmental education in Mexico.

The goal is to foster connections between children in these three countries and unite youth in cooperation to protect the monarch butterfly's migration into the future. 

Families, home schools, zoos and aquariums, nature centers, libraries, youth groups and classrooms are welcome to participate. The complete details on how to participate are in the 2024-25. Watch a short video about what your ambassador folder should include.

Watch the Symbolic Migration video (in Spanish with English subtitles) as an introduction to the program, then read the 2024 leader packet, which includes more information about how to participate.

Be an early migrant by purchasing your passenger ticket and mailing your ambassador folder by Sept. 30, 2024. The final postmark deadline this season is Oct. 18, 2024. 

Questions? Contact symbolic-migration@eealliance.org.

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 2,000+ 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.