Monarch Network´s Chapters
Socio-environmental
National Phenology Network
Community Water Monitoring Network
The San Juan Zitácuaro River Watershed
The San Juan Zitácuaro River Watershed Project, by Alternare, A.C.
About Us
Alternare
For more than 20 years we have been working for the conservation of the monarch butterfly’s overwintering working together with the rural communities and ejidos that inhabit the region. Our comprehensive sustainable development model generates the necessary capacities and skills for rural communities to make good use and management of their natural resources, improve their quality of life and find the motivation to get involved in conservation.
Biocenosis
Biocenosis A.C Monarch Region has been working in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve region for 15 years. With the support of different governmental and private institutions, projects have been carried out in different agricultural areas; this is how we have been in direct contact with ejidos and communities, knowing and learning lifestyles, needs and problems to develop projects for a common good.
Cielo Rojo
Is an organization created by filmmakers and professionals in forestry, social and environmental sciences engaged in developing audiovisual projects to promote a friendly awareness of the environment, culture, and art. The team is made up of a multidisciplinary group in sciences and arts with experience working with socio-environmental processes in the monarch region, particularly in the State of Mexico.
Correo Real
Correo Real program is an environmental education and citizen science project from PROFAUNA A.C., created in 1992 and based in the municipality of Saltillo, Coahuila. Its main mission is the conservation of the monarch butterfly in its migratory route, through the establishment of a network of citizens and organizations that actively participate. In addition, Correo Real is considered the first citizen science project in Mexico.
Espacio Autónomo
Espacio Autónomo is an organization established as a Civil Association on May 5, 1998. Its members are researchers in the areas of social, environmental, agronomic, economic and communication sciences. Our areas of intervention are in the North and Central region of the largest polygon of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBRM) in the States of Mexico and Michoacán. We also work in the States of Morelos and Guerrero.
Fondo Monarca
The Monarch Fund (MF) is a project that grants financial support to the owners of properties in the Core Zone of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR). The mission of the Monarch Fund and CONAFOR (National Forestry Commission) is to promote the conservation of natural resources and the production of environmental services in the forests of the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR) through Concurrent Funds.
Monarch Butterfly Fund
Our mission is to foster the conservation of North American Monarch butterflies and their migration through habitat restoration, research, monitoring, education, and support for sustainable community development in and near monarch overwintering areas in Mexico.
Razonatura
Its main objective is to support and influence the promotion and dissemination of sustainable development and biodiversity conservation; helping to ensure equality and social justice. It emerges as an organization formed by professionals in a wide range of disciplines, from the natural and social sciences, to engineering.
Centro de Investigaciones en Geografía Ambiental
The Center for Research in Environmental Geography (CIGA) is a department which is part of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). CIGA’s mission is to contribute to territorial planning and the management (use, conservation, and restoration) of natural resources in specific territories (landscapes). The emphasis is on the historical and geographical dimensions of the environmental issue, in the central-western region of Mexico.
Colegio de Geografía de la UNAM
The Phenology Network conducts training on issues regarding the response of plants to possible changes in the climate and how people can make use of this information to face this type of problem.
Fondo de Conservación del Eje Neovolcánico
The Neovolcanic Axis Conservation Fund works together with the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve’s communities for environmental conservation and community development.