The monarchs are very mystical creatures, you know.

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

A lot of indigenous people believe that it's the souls of their ancestors that are returning

here.

And it's very spiritual, basically.

You know, she's 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 rehydrates, 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 Michoac

on Mexico.

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

To the ear alone, it sounds like a light breeze, or a gentle waterfall.

But imagine yourself in a brilliant, orange and yellow waterfall made up of millions of

monarch butterflies swirling all around you.

These forests where they are overwintering are extremely beautiful forests.

You can imagine these trees were up at 10, 12,000 feet.

You know, the monarchs over winter at that high.

So to begin with, the air is very thin, it's chilly.

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