Lázaro Cárdenas Elementary
SCHOOL VISIT
Lázaro Cárdenas Elementary
Rincón de San Luis Community
Sanctuary El Rosario
Coordinates: 19.5580 -100.2642
Ambassadors: 186-243
As Symbolic Migration starts delivering your terrific Ambassadors in El Rosario area, we remind ourselves that the students living throughout these Oyamel, Pine and Oak forests, are living with their families and attending school at an average distance of 3.5 kilometers from the core zone in the forest where millions of Monarchs are roosting now!
El Rosario Sanctuary regularly has over 50% of the migrating population of Monarch butterflies. No one knows why, since the altitude, vegetation and climate conditions of the forest in nearby Sierra Chincua, the other overwintering spot only a few kilómeters across, appears to be identical.
Lázaro Cárdenas elementary students and teachers have been thrilled to learn additional aspects on the importance of pollinators today! “We knew that bees, bumble-bees, hummingbirds and butterflies were pollinators, but we did not know that flies, moths and bats were pollinators too! WOW! At night, moths and bats pollinate our cactus plants, like magueyeras and nopaleras, which are their favorite! ” students repeated over and over again in amazement!
“Nearly 80% of all wild blooming plants and more than three quarters of all crops feeding mankind, DEPEND ON POLLINATORS!” Symbolic Migration added.
Going outside, we used the donation of binoculars that Symbolic Migration received a few years ago from a US conservation specialist, to peep into the beautiful forest right across from the school. Through the lenses, we could spot a few wild plant species whose blooms are vital for pollinators -including Monarchs- on which to nectar. This was proof of how important it is to preserve wild vegetation!
In the same way students could see in your illustrated Ambassadors how different the vegetation where Monarchs breed in the northern regions where you live is.
“We have learned a lot today. We will protect pollinators much more now! Many of us have definitely decided that our favorite pollinators are BATS and MOTHS! They are so cool looking besides being night-creatures working so hard for us!” Many of their letters coming in the spring will express this to you!
Who are your favorite pollinators and why?
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A medida que la Migración Simbólica entrega sus maravillosas Embajadoras en el área de El Rosario, hemos de recordar que los estudiantes que viven alrededor de éstas áreas de Oyamel, Pino y Encino, viven y asisten a la escuela a tan sólo una distancia de 3.5 kilómetros de la zona núcleo del bosque donde millones de mariposas se concentran ahora!
El Santuario El Rosario recibe regularmente poco más del 50% de la población migrante de las mariposas Monarcas. Nadie sabe porque, puesto que la altura, la vegetación y las condiciones de clima del bosque en Sierra Chincua, el otro Santuario localizado a tan sólo pocos kilómetros, del lado opuesto, parece ser idéntico.
Los estudiantes y maestros de la primaria Lázaro Cárdenas están maravillados de aprender aspectos adicionales de la importancia de los polinizadores el día de hoy!. “Sabíamos que las abejas, los abejorros, los colibríes y las mariposas son polinizadores, pero no sabíamos que las moscas, las polillas y los murciélagos fueran polinizadores también! WOW! Por las noches, las polillas y los murciélagos polinizan nuestras platas cactáceas, como las magueyeras y las nopaleras, que son sus favoritas!” Repetían una y otra vez con asombro!
“Casi el 80% de todas las plantas con floración y más de tres cuartas partes de todos los cultivos que alimentan a la humanidad, DEPENDEN DE LOS POLINIZADORES”!, agregó la Migración Simbolica.
Salimos afuera y usamos el donativo de binoculares que la Migración Simbólica recibió de un experto en conservación hace pocos años, para ver de muy cerca el hermoso bosque justo frente a las escuela. A través de los lentes, pudimos reconocer algunas plantas silvestres cuyas flores son vitales para los polinizadores, -incluídas Monarcas- para obtener néctar. Ésta fue la prueba de lo importante que es conservar la vegetación silvestre!
De la misma manera, los estudientes pudieron ver en sus Embajadoras ilustradas lo diferente que es la vegetación donde se reproducen las Monarcas en las regiones del norte donde ustedes viven.
“Hemos aprendido mucho hoy. Protegeremos mucho más a los polinizadores ahora! Muchos de nosotros hemos decidido que nuestros polinizadores favoritos son LOS MURCIÉLAGOS y LAS POLILLAS! Se ven increíbles además de ser seres nocturnos que trabajan intensamente para nosotros!” Muchas de las cartas que ustedes recibirán en la primavera expresarán todo esto.
¿Quienes son tus polinizadores favoritos y porqué?
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