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Hey there on Point Podcast listeners, it's MagnetalkRubardi here.

On today's main show, we talked about the fragile beauty of the monarch butterfly.

Last month, the International Union for Conservation of Nature labeled the migratory monarch butterfly as endangered.

So we explored the butterflies' spectacular fall migration and the long-term habitat loss that threatens the monarchs.

We started our journey in Mexico.

The monarchs are very mystical creatures, you know.

They arrive here on the day of the dead, which we celebrate here in Mexico.

And a lot of the indigenous people believe that it's the souls of their ancestors that are returning.

And it's very spiritual basically.

You know, if you've been to the monarchs over a wintery site, it's a very special feeling,

you know, to listen to their wings and to see the quantity of monarchs.

And when they come off the clusters and they fly to rehydrate, it's extremely beautiful, you know.

Listening to the wings of a monarch butterfly, what a magical thought.

Jose Luis Alvarez is co-founder of Forests for Monarchs, a butterfly protection project

around the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve in the Highland Lakes area of Michoacán, Mexico.

And when he talks about listening to monarch wings, Jose Luis means listening to this.

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