If you are concerned about Monarchs and wish to assist with the efforts to conserve the overwintering sites in Mexico, you could contribute to one or more of the following programs:
Monarch Watch - Adopt-A-Classroom Program [more information]
Our objective is to provide instructional materials, particularly math and science kits, Spanish language story books, references and school supplies to each school classroom in the Monarch Reserve.
Over the years this program has grown by leaps and bounds; as a result it has been suspended until such time that a more efficient and cost effective way to get donations to the schools within the Monarch Reserve is worked out. Stay tuned!
Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation
The Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation (MBSF) is working to develop a model economic program by working with one ejido, a group of local families, that owns land in the Sierra Chincua sanctuary, the largest and most pristine Monarch overwintering area in Mexico. MBSF will tie economic aid, in the form of educational and economic development, to decreasing the number of trees cut in the forest.
Make checks payable to Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary Foundation (MBSF) and mail to: MBSF c/o Karen Oberhauser, 2078 Skillman Avenue, Roseville, MN 55113 USA, Email karen.s.oberhauser-1@tc.umn.edu
La Cruz Habitat Protection Project
The goal of the Michoacan Reforestation Fund and the La Cruz Habitat Protection Project is to work with the local landowners, the ejidatarios, to reforest their cleared lands in the monarch overwintering area. Reforestation is intended to provide a source of income for the ejidatarios and eliminate the pressure to continue logging in the locations used by overwintering Monarchs.
The Michoacan Fund has been created to make it possible for individuals and organizations in the United States and other countries to make tax exempt contributions. The Fund is a 501(c)(3) organization. After they are received by the Fund, the contributions are sent to Jose Luis Alvarez of the La Cruz Project who uses the funds to raise the seedlings which he and the ejidatarios plant in July in the overwintering area. 1999 will be the third year that seedlings will be planted. In 1997 and 1998, 47,000 oyamel fir and pine seedlings were planted. The goal for this year is to plant at least 100,000 seedlings.
A minimum contribution of $10 is requested. This will plant 20 trees on ejidtario land. Make checks payable to MRF/The La Cruz Habitat Protection Project and mail to: MRF c/o Bob Small, 628 Pond Isle, Alameda CA 94501. His e-mail address is danaus@fdt.net.
More information is available from the web site michoacanmonarchs.org.
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