Nezahualcóyotl Middle School
THE SCHOOL VISIT
Nezahualcóyotl Middle School
San Joaquín del Monte Community
Back buffer forest to El Rosario Sanctuary
Ambassadors: 866-906
Coordinates: 19.6372550 -100.1554704
Valentina and Rodrigo (pictured above), local students to El Rosario Sanctuary who Estela ran into a few days ago at the Sanctuary itself, asked to express these thoughts in this post.
“Can you imagine that we might never get to see the Monarch’s life cycle? Milkweed does not grow naturally in our lands. We’ve never seen a milkweed plant.”
“On the contrary, we cannot imagine how you might feel not being able to see our giant Oyamel fir trees with thousands of Monarchs on them. We see them anytime we want during the winter in the woods behind our homes!”
Students at Nezahualcóyotl Middle School were delighted with our visit, hardly believing their ears learning for the first time about the miraculous migration of Monarch butterflies!
They could easily recognize most of the local birds in the wonderful brochures on flora and fauna of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Notice the Calandria, or Pico-Gordo which is main predator to our Monarch butterflies here.
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Valentina y Rodrigo (foto superior), alumnos originarios del Santuario de El Rosario y a quienes Estela encontró hace días en el Santuario mismo, le pidieron pasar su comentario en este espacio:
“Cómo imaginar que nosotros podríamos no ver nunca el ciclo de vida de las Monarcas? La Asclepia no crece en nuestra tierra. Nunca hemos visto una planta de Asclepia aquí”
“Por el contrario, no podemos imaginar que se puede sentir no poder ver a nuestros gigantes árboles de Oyamel con miles de mariposas Monarcas en ellos. Nosotros podemos verlos cada vez que queramos durante todo el invierno en el monte tan solo aquí detrás de nuestras casas!”
Los alumnos de la Secundaria Nezahualcóyotl se sintieron felices con nuestra visita, no pudiendo creer lo que escuchaban por primera vez del milagro de la Gran Migración de las mariposas Monarcas!.
Los estudiantes pudieron reconocer la mayor parte de las aves locales en los preciosos folletos sobre flora y fauna de la Biósfera de la Reserva de las Monarcas. Nótese la Calandría ó Pico-Gordo, la depredadora principal de nuestras Monarcas aquí.
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