José Vasconcelos Middle School

José Vasconcelos Middle School

SCHOOL VISIT

José Vasconcelos Middle School

San Felipe Los Alzati community

Coordinates: 19.4890651 -100.3666988

Ambassadors: 500 - 569

 Dear Symbolic Migration participants, your fantastic Ambassadors continue to be welcomed at this large student community of Ziráhuato and San Felipe villages, where Monarchs love to cascade down to its abundant blossoms, sunny open spaces, and mineral waters.

The Principal and Assistant Principal, both biologists, asked that we speak about the beginnings of the migration of Monarchs once it was scientifically confirmed, but above all, of the main aspects challenging the migration now.

 “We could not imagine that our conifers forests were so unique, growing in this limited area shown on the satellite map. We have the largest nucleus of this type of forest in the entire planet. ¡So unique the Monarchs make us!”

 The large group went over names of abundant local flowers Monarchs and other pollinators use for nectar, showing their great inherited knowledge from their grandparents:

 “Red and blue salvias, lavender, camelina, blooms of the avocado and loquat trees and sunflowers.

 “All of these caterpillars become diurnal butterflies and nocturnal moths? We can recognize some of them living in our wild plants. To think that many local people still believe they can be a plague, instead of a stage of metamorphosis!  So cute and incredible they are!

 “Yes, our own soil types vary in color and texture. We had never related our inactive “Los Azufres” volcano and its mineral waters providing our agricultural lands with rich amounts of salts and minerals! 

Pe r h a p s  that is  w h y  M o n a r c h s  l o v e  our  f o r e s t s  and  v a l l e y s !”

 However, students showed their concern as we reflected on how our ancestral Oyamel conifer forests which have been providing water for the whole agricultural development in the region are being transformed into avocado plantations.

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Estimados participantes de la Migración Simbólica, sus fantásticas Embajadoras continúan siendo bienvenidas en esta enorme comunidad estudiantil de los pueblos de Ziráhuato y San Felipe a donde a las Monarcas les encanta bajar a sus abundantes floraciones, espacios soleados y sus aguas minerales.

El Director y el Sub-Director, ambos biólogos de profesión, pidieron al programa que habláramos de los inicios de la migración de las Monarcas una vez que el fenómeno fué confirmado científicamente, pero sobre todo, de los principales aspectos que enfrenta ahora la migración.

“No imaginábamos que nuestros bosques de coníferas fueran tan únicos y que ocuparan extensiones más bien pequeñas, como las muestra el mapa satelital..Nosotros en nuestra región tenemos los núcleos mas grandes núcleos de éste tipo de bosque en todo el planeta. ¡Así de única han convertido las monarcas a nuestra región!”

 El enorme grupo repasó los nombres de abundantes flores locales de donde las Monarcas y otros polinizadores obtienen néctar, mostrando su gran conocimiento heredado de sus abuelos.

“¡Salvias azules y rojas, lavanda, camelina, flores de aguacate, de níspero y girasoles.!”

¿Todas estas orugas se convierten en mariposas diurnas y en polillas o mariposas nocturnas?. Podemos reconocer algunas de ellas en nuestras plantas silvestres. ¡Pensar que aún mucha gente local aún piensa que pueden ser una plaga, en vez de saber que es tan solo una etapa de metamorfosis de hermosas mariposas!. ¡Son hermosas en increíbles!

“Si, nuestras diferentes tipos de tierra varían en textura y color. ¡Nunca habíamos relacionado nuestro volcán ya inactivo de “Los Azufres” y sus aguas minerales llevando a nuestras tierras de cultivo ricas cantidades en sales y minerales!  

¿Quizas esta sea la razón por la que las Monarcas desean venir a nuestros bosques y valles?  

Sin embargo nuestros estudiantes mostraron preocupación al reflexionar como nuestros bosques de Oyameles y demás coníferas que han venido proveyendo de agua para todo el desarrollo en agricultura de la región, y que poco a poco se transforman en plantaciones de aguacates.

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