The magical, mesmerizing migration of monarch butterflies | Jaime Rojo
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🗓️ 9 October 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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When monarch butterflies migrate, they produce one of the most iconic wildlife spectacles in the world — and provide us with an important indicator of ecological health, says photographer Jaime Rojo. Telling a story about our relationship to the natural world, he shares his experience photographing these mesmerizing insects deep in their remote mountain habitats in Mexico, diving into the latest research into the mysteries of their multi-thousand-mile journey and sharing how each of us can join the growing movement to protect them.
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| 0:00.0 | Ted Audio Collective. |
| 0:02.0 | Audio Collective. |
| 0:04.0 | You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, |
| 0:10.0 | where we bring you new ideas to spark your curiosity every day. |
| 0:14.8 | I'm your host, Elise Hugh. |
| 0:17.0 | We're about to get a deeper understanding of extraordinary butterflies, the monarch butterfly, to specific. In his 2024 talk, photographer |
| 0:26.2 | Jaime Rojo gives us the fascinating ancestral history of these creatures, |
| 0:30.4 | their worrying fate today, and why they desperately need our protection. |
| 0:36.4 | That's coming up after the break. |
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| 1:07.0 | And now our TED Talk of the Day. Few insects have captured our imagination like the monarch butterfly. |
| 1:14.0 | Their migration is one of the most iconic wildlife spectacles in North America, |
| 1:20.0 | but they are also one of the best environmental indicators we have |
| 1:24.1 | of the health of our ecosystems. |
| 1:26.4 | And they have been in decline for the last 40 years. |
| 1:30.3 | So they might be telling us a bigger story, |
| 1:34.0 | a story about our relationship with the natural world. |
| 1:37.0 | Every year, these amazing insects undertake |
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