Enter the magical world of monarch butterflies.

Our journey shows this persistent creature as fragile as it is resilient.

Monarch butterflies are incredibly unique in that in the butterfly world, in the family of Lepidoptera, they are one of the very few that have a migration.

And not only do they have a migration, but they have a migratio that extends thousands of miles, as far as southern Canada, all the way down to their wintering grounds in Mexico.

And the longest path of that migration is roughly 2500 miles.

These wintering grounds in Michoacan, Mexico, are not just a refuge for the monarchs, but an example of why it's important we continue to help the environment.

What Wellington has been working in the conservation of the migratory monarch butterfly for many, many years, and in 2000 with scientific information was able to help the Mexican government to extend the protected area where the monarch butterflies overwinter.

They created the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve.

When I think about visiting the wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, the thing that comes to mind first are the people.

And when you visit the sanctuaries in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, you're visiting the homeland of people who are caring for these creatures And so for me, that's the first.

The face of the butterflies are the people who live in this place, who protect them.

Every little part of the migration is crucial.

The monarch migration is not a lone journey, but a series of interactions between the butterflies and the people and places they encounter.

The life cycle of the monarch butterfly includes a metamorphosis, one of nature's most unique transformations to understand monarch butterfly migration, it's really important to understand the development of this butterfly because it goes through what's called metamorphosis.

Adult butterflies lay eggs and they lay their eggs on the milkweed plant.

And those eggs develop into caterpillars and those caterpillars.

Their primary jo is to eat as much as possible, but they only eat one plant, and that plant is milkweed.

So then they, become a chrysalis, and the they metamorphose their cells, literally go into a goo, and then they're build into another organism the adult phase of a butterfly.

That butterfly hatches, and then it's in its adult phase.

Access to milkweed is the most important part of the monarch lifecycle.

It's where the next generation will begin ensuring the continuation of the species as the monarchs navigate the vast landscapes of North America.

Their presence reminds u of the importance of our actions and their effects on the natural world.

As we look deeper into the monarch story, we meet the reality of the threats they face.

Their habitat, once covered in milkweed and wildflowers, has been transformed by many factors.

This one over the flies are confronting many threats.

First, is Millwood extinction or depletion?

There has been a lot of human expansion and agricultural expansion, so they've been using, o course, herbicides, pesticides, and that impacts all of th plants, including the milkweed.

And monarch depend on milkweed to reproduce.

Unfortunately, we learned that as we are producing more agricultural goods and thus we are expanding our Huron areas we are killing those new weeds.

The monarch butterflies journey, filled with many potential problems, crosses much of North America.

Being able to ensure that milkweed and other, nectar plant species are available throughout the entire range of the monarch butterfly, that those are going to be the strategies that we need to put in place to make sure that this amazing phenomenon.

It is here to stay on their 2500 mile journey.

Monarch navigate through many obstacles such as environmental hazards, shrinking breeding grounds, and the loss of milkweed due to pesticides.

I have the opportunit throughout the year to be able to guide people on wildlif tours, throughout North America, and one of the trips that I'm able to guide is actually to the wintering grounds of the monarch butterfly, a massive community o caretakers and conservationists as formed across North America to support the migratory monarch.

When you work with species as charismatic as the monarch butterfly, is this not difficult to engage people?

This is an insect that you can see in your backyard hidden the United States, bu you can also see it in Mexico.

And you can also see it in Canada.

The monarch journey has become a shared one, with their fate linked to our individual and collective environmental actions.

And we're learning things tha we never thought was possible.

And the monarch butterfly is this beautiful example o a species that is preposterous.

This half grand animal traveling 2005 hundred miles to a place it's never been before.

But its great great, great great ancestor has been to the exact tree that it's going to end up.

When we think about the monarch butterfly, it is a charismatic species and that captures the imagination of people.

It inspires people to action.

We as people can come together across boundaries, across, neighborhoods and cities and countries, and we can take care of the species that we live alongside in this one Earth, this one home.

The monarch story inspires people across North America to help these butterflies continue to thrive in their annual migration.

My advice would be to go out there, enjoy nature, and see what you can do.

There's a lot to do.

Everything that we do in our life has an impact in this planet.

From the things that we buy from the food that we eat, how we transport ourselves, but also what we do outside.

Do we trash?

Are we, you know, looking into using natural compost instead of fertilizers?

What can we do?

Is very important.

Question yoursel and make sure that every action that you do impacts in a positive way, not only for the planet, but for your loved ones, is for us, is for the humanity in every garden planted every pesticide not sprayed in every voice.

Raised in advocacy helps the monarchs continue to prosper.

From Canada to Mexico, we can all share the migratory monarch butterfly experience.

Their successes represen our shared actions and efforts towards conservation and environmentalism as we move forward.

Let the monarch be an example to the conservation and future for other species.

Their journey reminds us that hope is a choice we can make every day.