The Project Description

Since the late 1990s, the monarch butterfly population has fallen dramatically. Through Forests for Monarchs, land is reforested in and around the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve where millions of monarchs spend each winter, and in the Highland Lakes watershed area in Michoacán, Mexico, with the goal of helping to conserve the monarch butterfly winter habitat while aiding the surrounding communities in creating a sustainable livelihood supported by good forest stewardship.

A key focus is protecting and restoring the resilience of the monarch butterfly habitats and biodiversity by stimulating regenerative ecological processes. This project promotes functional diversity and species recruitment with the direct employment of local communities through our partners on the ground. Agroforestry operations are implemented through workshops & active involvement of local communities.

Thanks to sampled direct measurements and an analysis of estimated carbon sequestration, we estimate each tree can contribute to sequestering an average of 36,69Kg CO2e over a 10 years period. Estimations & Conversions