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On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

Rebroadcast: How to save the endangered monarch butterfly

On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti

WBUR

Talk Show, News, Npr, Daily, On Point

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2022

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

The fragile beauty of the monarch butterfly. Can they be saved?

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The monarchs are very mystical creatures, you know.

0:37.5

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

0:42.0

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

0:49.0

And it's very spiritual, basically.

0:52.0

You know, if you've been to the monarchs over a wintery site,

0:55.0

it's very special feeling to listen to their wings.

0:58.0

And to see the quantity of monarchs.

1:02.0

And when they come off the clusters and they fly to rehydrates,

1:08.0

it's extremely beautiful, you know.

1:11.0

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

1:19.0

Jose Luis Alvarez is co-founder of Forests for Monarchs,

1:24.0

a butterfly protection project around the monarch butterfly biosphere reserve

1:29.0

in the Highland Lakes area of Michoac on Mexico.

1:33.0

And when he talks about listening to monarch wings,

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