Conservation
Written by Ariana Bowman, WWF’s Gift Planning Senior Development Officer As we navigated through the lush forest landscape on horseback and then on foot, a sense of excitement built, an anticipation for the breathtaking sights that awaited.
Latin America
By Mac Mirabile, Senior Director of Analytics at World Wildlife Fund A solitary monarch butterfly flutters along a dusty path leading our group of eager eco-tourists toward the monarch’s wintering home high among the oyamel fir and pine trees of the Sierra Madre mountains in Michoacán, Mexico.
Latin America
Where: In the central Mexican highlands state of Michoacán, a steep climb up from the mountain town of Angangueo. What’s there: Mexico’s only public monarch butterfly sanctuary, which becomes carpeted, wallpapered and otherwise drenched in orange and black butterflies each winter.
