Symbolic
Migration Update: April 12, 2004
Today's Report Includes:
When Will Our Symbolic Butterflies Return?
The long winter has come to an end, and the monarchs are now flooding northward across the continent from Mexico. So everybody is wondering, when will OUR Symbolic Butterflies return?
Here’s the schedule:
| MARCH:
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Monarchs flew to Journey North Headquarters in Minnesota |
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| APRIL:
Journey North staff spends the month in Minnesota packing your return envelopes |
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| MAY:
Symbolic Monarchs are mailed from Minnesota to reach you by May 5 - Cinco de Mayo! |
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| Symbolic
Monarch Homecoming: May 5, 2004 We’ll do our best to have the Symbolic Monarchs to you by this deadline! |
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Adios Angangueo!
Looking Back on the Winter Stay in Mexico
Here are images of this winter’s Symbolic Migration in Mexico. Look carefully and you might find your own butterfly during its stay!
| Almost 14,000 Symbolic Butterflies Were Tagged at the Sanctuaries by Visitors | ||
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 Setting up the Exhibit at the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary (Viewing Tips) |
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| Greeting from Senor La Cruz of Ejido Cerro Prieto | ||
| When tourists visit the sanctuaries on weekends they find a beautiful exhibit at the entrance, and Symbolic Monarchs to greet them. A banner reads “Migracion Simbolica: Uniendo a los ninos de norteamerica” (Symbolic Migration: Uniting the Children of North America), and the flags of Mexico, Canada and the United States wave proudly. Tourists are invited to “tag” a symbolic butterfly. On the back of the tag, they write their own address. When these Symbolic Monarchs come back this spring, you may receive one that was tagged by a tourist. The Cerro Prieto ejido owns land at the entrance to the Sierra Chincua Sanctuary. Members gave Journey North permission to set up our exhibit at this beautiful place, and they made the wooden stand just for us. When the butterflies came out of the boxes the people crowded around to see. Everybody wanted to tag a butterfly and they were touched by the letters sent from Canada and the United States. In
the second clip, Senor la Cruz says they are very happy to have
the Symbolic Butterflies and that they will take good care of
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| Another 34,000 Symbolic Butterflies Were Cared for by Students at Sanctuary Area Schools | ||
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| Students at Escuela Los Trojos helped Enrique the artist paint a banner for their school. Against this decorative backdrop, the Symbolic Monarchs they received would remain for the winter, like a forest sanctuary. At the end of the day they gathered for a video greeting and wave. | ||
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Students Receive Their Butterflies and Read Their Return Greetings |  |
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Continuing the Cycle of Friendship
We hope these images convey the excitement your butterflies carried with them to Mexico. All winter long, children poured through the butterflies looking for favorites, parents read messages aloud to their children, people posed for photos, and a general sense of international goodwill prevailed. People were amazed and inspired to learn that 50,699 students sent Symbolic Monarchs to Mexico for safekeeping!
Watch your mailbox in May for the arrival of Symbolic Monarchs. You’ll receive butterflies that were made last fall by other North American students. Instructions will be included so you can continue the cycle of friendship.
Plans for the Fall 2004 Symbolic Migration will be available on August 15, 2004.
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