SchoolsEstela RomeroJanuary 20, 2026"Adolfo López

Adolfo López Mateos, Elementary

SchoolsEstela RomeroJanuary 20, 2026"Adolfo López

SCHOOL VISIT

Adolfo López Mateos Elementary

Cerro Prieto Community

El Rosario Sanctuary

Coordinates: 19.5866 -100.2926

“Butterflies orient themselves with their antennae and taste with their feet.”

“Butterflies collect and carry less pollen than bees.”

“We would have never imagined that bats and moths do the pollinating work overnight.”

“Are fireflies and dragonflies pollinators too?” students asked.

“This is the first time we have heard that that what we call w e e d s are so extremely important and should be protected as much as we protect our Oyamel fir forests for Monarchs to roost!”

Students were proud to show Symbolic Migration their school garden, which already includes different species of native plants, including our ancestral Mexican Maguey and Nopal.

Forests and native plants provide our region with water and humidity for agricultural lands and the local population. We get our water by gravity flow directly from the natural springs in our mountains. Our parents do not need to install or pay for expensive watering systems.

All the schools where your Ambassadors land are located throughout the forests of these mountains where Monarchs are now overwintering!

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“Las mariposas se orientan con sus antenas y prueban con sus pies”

“Las mariposas colectan y transportan menos polen que las abejas”

“Nunca nos hubiéeramos imaginado que los murciélagos y las polillas realizan polinización por las noches”

“¿Son polinizadoras las luciérnagas y las libélulas?

“Es la primera vez que hemos escuchado que a todo eso que nosotros llamamos h i e r b a es tan importante y debe protegerse tanto como protegemos nuestros bosques de Oyamel para que hibernen las Monarcas!

Los alumnos mostraron a Symbolic Migration su jardín escolar en el que ya han incluído diferentes especies nativas, incluyendo nuestros ancestrales Maguey y Nopal.

Los bosques y las plantas nativas surten de agua y humedad a nuestra región para nuestras tierras de cultivo y la población local. Nosotros obtenemos el agua por gravedad directamente de nuestros manantiales en nuestras montañas. Nuestros padres no necesitan instalar ó pagar por algún sistema de riego que son delicados y costos.