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Michoacán, Mexico · a winter morning

Monarchs

High on a mountain, tens of millions of butterflies are asleep on the firs, wings folded, waiting for the sun.

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Monarchs

Michoacán · every winter

Every autumn, monarchs born across Canada and the United States fly as far as 4,000 km south, to a few mountaintops in central Mexico and a forest none of them has ever seen. In March they turn north again, and it takes three or four generations to get back to Canada. Then the great-great-grandchildren make the whole journey south in one go. Their forests are protected today as the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a UNESCO World Heritage site.

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Monarchs

A quiet forest wakes into colour as monarch butterflies lift from the trees.

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