HOPE FOR THE FUTURE – INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S GROVE
Each year, Jose Luis and his team have brought 10,000 seedlings to different schools in the buffer zones of the Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Areas. Children, teachers and parents all participate in the planting of the trees and learn about the dynamics of forest ecology through firsthand experience. In 2003, Journey North, an eco-educational organization dedicated to improving math and science education through the study of migratory species, proposed an International Children’s Grove be a designated part of MRF and LCHPP reforestation.

Contributions from students in the U.S. and Canada will enable children in Mexico to plant trees. The linking of school children in our three countries expands cultural understanding and imparts a shared knowledge of the science and wonder of monarch migration.