Your purchase radiates life. 

Each purchase directly contributes to the reforestation of degraded lands in the overwintering habitats of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve in Michoacán, Mexico through our partners at Forest For Monarchs.

 Thanks to your support, we have contributed to:

Forests For Monarchs is dedicated to protecting the monarch butterfly and other endemic species by reforesting the land surrounding the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, and promote sustainable forest management among the local landowners for their economic benefit and forest conservation. Learn more about Forests For Monarchs at: www.forestsformonarchs.org

The monarch butterfly's current situation

The mixed pine-oyamel forest, where the monarchs overwinter every year, is constantly threatened by the unsustainable logging –at large and small scales, by the commercial and agricultural activities around and inside the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. In the past 20 years, the monarch butterfly population has decreased by more than 90%. Among the environmental impacts caused by human activities in the mixed pine-oyamel forest are: fragmentation of habitat, degraded & unproductive land, eroded soils, absence of water in creeks and rivers, and climate change. This amazing, iconic insect that travels thousands of miles every year, not only fights the lack of milkweed habitats along its Fall and Spring migration pathways, but also faces the challenges of overwintering in an already degraded environment. 

We feel very grateful and honored to support Forest For Monarchs and its beautiful cause, one which fights to preserve ecosystems and our natural environment.