Mariposa Monarca
The Purépecha grandmothers tell how their ancestors walked from the cold lands at the centre of the country When the children and old people could go no further they covered their bodies with the orange resin of the trees and the yellow pollen of the flowers to keep themselves warm The pollen and resin transformed them into monarch butterflies and they flew together to the lands of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve Every year the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve hosts millions of monarch butterflies every year which after migrating 50000 km southwards from Canada and the United States arrive in the oyamel forests of the states of Mexico and Michoacán Lynx the Aztec blackbird and the brook salamander also benefit from the conservation of this important area in which local communities and Indigenous peoples actively participate