Good Nature Travel Blog

  • Latin America

    Chasing Monarch Butterflies: A Memoir of Mexico’s El Rosario Preserve

    Mar 16, 2023 · WWF

    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.

  • Conservation

    Goodbye Butterfly? Protecting the Endangered Monarch Butterflies

    May 13, 2022 · Cathy Brown

    The playful charm that butterflies radiate as they flit about from colorful asters to goldenrods to milkweed is undeniable. Of the 750 butterfly species in the United States, the monarch (Danaus plexippus)—with its brilliant orange-red wings with black veins and white spots along the edges—may be the most iconic and easily recognizable.