Symbolic Migration Update: Fall 2016

Symbolic Migration

Symbolic Migration News
September 12, 2016, by Mary Hosier

Join the Symbolic Butterfly Migration!
Create a classroom butterfly that will unite your classroom in monarch conservation with students in Mexico and Canada.

Students near El Rosario Monarch Sanctuary, Mexico

Welcome to the 2016-2017 Symbolic Migration

Create a classroom ambassador butterfly that will unite your classroom in monarch conservation with students in Mexico and Canada.

How to Participate
Postmark Your Butterflies by October 14, 2016

How to Participate

Monarch Butterfly Ambassador

Prepare your students for their role as Ambassadors.

Role of Ambassador

Did You Know?
The children who will receive your butterfly live directly beside the monarch winter sanctuaries. You can read about their lives through bilingual stories, video and images. See Life in the Sanctuary Area

Monarch Butterfly Migration
Crossing Borders and Connecting People

The Symbolic Butterfly Symbolic paper butterflies serve as ambassadors representing monarch conservation across borders.

The monarch butterfly is a famous international traveler.

Monarchs fly from Canada and the United States to spend the winter in Mexico. They travel across three countries and migrate as far as 2,500 miles (4,000 kilometers)!

Monarchs have a special winter home in Mexico. Only twelve mountain-top forests have the habitat they need to survive the winter.

The butterflies arrive in Mexico in November. Children look forward to the monarch's return every fall.

Clusters of monarchs hang in trees in Mexico for the winter. The forest shelters them.

Spring migration from Mexico begins in March. The monarchs become international travelers once again.

Every fall, thousands of children in the United States and Canada send symbolic monarchs to Mexico.

The ambassador butterflies carry messages of friendship and gratitude.

The symbolic butterflies build bridges of communication and friendship. They symbolize international cooperation for monarch conservation.

Report to the Map

After you send your butterfly on its journey, report to the Fall Migration map. Participating classrooms can connect through the map.

Report: Fall Symbolic Migration Map

Report | Map

Next Update October 3, 2016