SchoolsEstela RomeroDecember 01, 2019

"Melchor Ocampo"

SchoolsEstela RomeroDecember 01, 2019

SCHOOL VISIT.-

Here we go, dear friends!, your Symbilic Monarchs continue landing on at the different schools closest to Sanctuary “El Rosario”. The views from each point every day are impressive, and today’s they were simply exceptional, while driving at around 10 thousand feet hight!. Today your Ambassadors landed at the “Melchor Ocampo” elementary, in a surrounding community called “El Puerto”. Every season, this could be one of the most unaccessible locations to drive to, since the trails to it are hardly adjusted to drive a car, but better 4x4 type cars. Around 20 (twenty) children to families living in this beatiful natural area are reason enough for the Symbolic Migration and for our brave VW “Rocinante” to reach this school. Our goal is that no school surrounding the three Sanctuaries is missing our environmental message, wishing to contribute to making one more little step in our children’s awareness of the treasure natural surrounding Monarchs share with them.. Once children listened from Estela that our planet loses hundreds of plant and animal species EVERY DAY, they could just not believe their ears!. “Oh, no, that cannot be”!, “Oh, mine, what is being done to stop this?”, —where the most exclamations—. “This shall be part of our planet’s natural process on one side, on the other side, we are still on time to do, and there is a lot to do!. Many, many organizations, people, governments are very active everywhere; and never think you have to do extra huge efforts to be part of it; all we have to do is to act local; local means, doing at home, at school and in our community. Caring for water, lessening plastic use, protecting our local animals and plants… the rest is on adults’ and authorities responsibilities to solve. They are doing their part too!”, —Estela replied—. Introducing our lesson with the poster showing the pollinators in risk in the United States, gave them a clear idea on how in every country we are facing the same big responsibility of rescue and conservation. “Look, they are having many of the pollinators we have here too, like bats, bees, wasps, hummingbirds” —a group observed while looking close to each pollinator in the poster. “And they are threatened or endangered, just as they are here too, together with many other animals and plants, as Estela has just told us”, —others added—. We went then onto OUR threatened, endangered and even extinct 2-3 species in our location. As they told each other on their own experiences from their walk to the forest with their parents and grandparents, they of course remembered hearing them: “lament how we have totally lost our deer species, our road-runners, maybe one or two bird kinds too, bees lessening, toads and frogs, this or that bug too…”, they assured from their grandpa’s comments. “We cannot await to go home and make many questions to mom, dad, grandpa and grandma; we need to do much more to protect them!. Who could imagine that wombs are so important, that polinators are feeding us, that salamandras are signal of the pureness of water and levels of humidity?, that our own local plants are medicine for free when mom or grandma cures us from pain and illnesses at home without the need to go to a doctor!”, One could be delighted to hear the exchange of our chidren getting so wonderful aware of the importance of it all!. Habitat, local actions, protection and conservation were the highlight words of the day, while deforestation, pollution, threatened, endangered and extinct, were the red signs to avoid from our lives!. Sharing all this through their letters to you and asking you about the topic, and confirming it after playing the “Web of Life” game, made them feel really excited and very importantly involved in a real issue for mankind in our world!. A flat tire would not stop me from shooting wonderful views to town, (which all tourists and visitors can contemplate when visiting Sanctuary “El Rosario”). After a difficult descending our brave VW bug was hardly on time to be able to reach town still going. A 30 (thirty) pesos repair for the flat tire and a 40 (forty) pesos special water-pressure wash let handsome Rocinante shining and ready to go home and rest the weekend after a wonderful and exciting week bringing your Ambassador Monarchs to our children in the mountains!. We bet such services for a car are not as unexpensive for you as they are here for us!