Know Before You Go

—By Valerie Gleaton
Nat Hab conservation partner World Wildlife Fund recently released two reports on the state of Eastern monarch butterfly populations—and the findings are troubling.

—By Megan Brief
Journey into the highlands of Central Mexico with two female Expedition Leaders eager to share their passion for this region’s natural and cultural heritage. Our guides will share the stories of women who were integral in enriching our knowledge of the monarch migration.

—By Nat Hab Expedition Leader Jimmy Nguyen
If our first visit to El Rosario featured streams of butterflies, this second visit had an ocean. Monarchs surrounded our group, swarming in every direction, flying and landing wherever they pleased.

—By Mac Mirabile, Senior Director of Analytics, WWF
A solitary monarch butterfly flutters along a dusty path leading our group of eager eco-tourists toward the monarch’s wintering home high among the oyamel fir and pine trees of the Sierra Madre mountains in Michoacán, Mexico

—By Megan Brief
Milkweeds are toxic to most species; however, despite their seemingly sinister sap, milkweeds breathe life to pollinators and people alike. In fact, one of the easiest ways to conserve monarchs is by planting milkweed!

—By Samantha Miller
Each fall, millions of monarch butterflies land in Mexico’s Central Highlands after a long journey to find respite from the cooling winter temperatures in the northeastern U.S. and Canada.

—By Nat Hab
Nat Hab’s all-encompassing Mexico monarch butterfly tour gives you extensive time to walk among the monarchs, take photos, and listen to the air hum with the vibration of their wings. Here are 13 monarch butterfly facts to know before you go!

—By Nat Hab Adventure Specialist Joey Sudmeier
Witnessing the monarch migration was a phenomenal experience, but it’s the small moments surrounding it that make this adventure my own personal retreat.

—By Courtney Nachlas
To help connect her students in Indiana to students in rural Angangueo, 2020 Monarch Scholarship Winner Beth Smith set up a collection for school supplies to take down on her trip to see the butterflies. In addition, her students wrote a series of letters with the help of their Spanish teacher, to the Mexican students.

—By Mireille Hess, 2019 Monarch Butterfly Scholarship Grant Winner
My biggest takeaway from this incredible experience is that we’re in this together. Mexico can’t save the monarchs’ migration alone, nor can Canada or America. We have to come together and work together to save this incredible butterfly migration.