Project Highlights

In the summer of 2010 MBF supported the planting of 141,800 seedlings. This year we teamed up with Espacio Autonomo, a Mexican non-profit organization specialized in grassroots community organization, to reforest ecologically damaged areas in the Sierra Chincua of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. MBF also donated seedlings to the Indigenous Communities of Crescencio Morales, Francisco Serrato, and Donanciano Ojeda.  The reforestation project with the indigenous communities received on the ground support from staff at the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, who also coordinated the reforestation of MBF donated seedlings in the Federal Property of the Sierra Chincua. Additional MBF donated seedlings were planted in the Ejido of El Rosario.  

We conducted 5 workshops to train tourist guides and also developed an environmental education program for schools in Mexico...

We helped landowners establish an exporting business for locally-produced crafts, and also supported the non-profit organization Alternare...

The MBF small grants program continues to support research directly related to understanding the ecological conditions most conducive to the survial of monarch butterflites. We continue to fund a small grants program with a preference to Mexican students and scientists...

The Monarch Joint Venture will coordinate monarch conservation