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:
Symbolic
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 back to
you |
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Symbolic
Monarch Homecoming: May 15, 2003
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!
Over
15,000 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 |
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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
them.
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One of the special people taking care
of a special monarch...Meet the Director of the Monarch Sanctuaries,
Marco
Antonio Bernal Hernández
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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 50,666 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.
Please Join
Us Next Fall
Watch for a NEW MAILING ADDRESS
Plans for the Fall 2003 Symbolic Migration will be available on August
15, 2003. We will have a DIFFERENT mailing address, so please watch
the web carefully for details.
This is the FINAL Symbolic Update
of the Season.
See You Next Fall!
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North. All Rights Reserved.
Please send all questions, comments, and suggestions to our feedback form
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