

The Guardians
Season 3 Episode 5 | 56m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
A Mexican community must build a sustainable path for themselves and monarch butterflies.
The iconic monarch butterflies and an indigenous Mexican community depend on the same ancient forest for their survival...but they face uncertainty. Journey through the butterfly dense mountaintops of Michoacan as the people of Donaciano Ojeda face illegal loggers and internal divisions while struggling to build a sustainable path forward.
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Funding for season three of Doc World provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Wyncote Foundation.

The Guardians
Season 3 Episode 5 | 56m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
The iconic monarch butterflies and an indigenous Mexican community depend on the same ancient forest for their survival...but they face uncertainty. Journey through the butterfly dense mountaintops of Michoacan as the people of Donaciano Ojeda face illegal loggers and internal divisions while struggling to build a sustainable path forward.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship♪ ♪ ANDIA: This indigenous Mexican community is struggling to survive-- and to protect the millions of monarch butterflies in the forest they share.
ARISTEO (speaking Spanish): The Guardians.
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♪ ♪ (birds chirping) SANTOS: ♪ SANTOS: ARISTEO: (chopping, trunk creaking) (branches snapping) (tree hits ground) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (horse neighs) (water flowing) (water flowing) (speaking Spanish): (child talking) SANTOS: (birds chirping) (girl speaking Spanish) SANTOS: (grinding) (birds chirping) ARISTEO: (exhales) LEUCADIA: (Aristeo talking softly) ARISTEO: (birds chirping) (murmuring) (speaking Spanish): (crowd murmuring) AUDELIA: MAN: MAN: MAN: AUDELIA: MAN: (men speaking at once) (murmuring) MAN: MAN: (talking indistinctly) ♪ SANTOS: ♪ MAN: MAN: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (static popping) MAN: (students speaking Spanish) (dancing song playing on recording) (cheering and whistling on recording) (man singing on recording) (song ends) (church bell ringing) (ringing continues) (man speaking softly) (ringing continues in distance) (players yelling) (whistle blows) SANTOS: (man laughing) SANTOS: (laughing) (man yelling) SANTOS: ARISTEO: SANTOS: ARISTEO: SANTOS: ARISTEO: (whistle blows) SANTOS: (sighs) ♪ ♪ BENJAMIN: ARISTEO: ♪ ♪ BENJAMIN: ARISTEO: BENJAMIN: ARISTEO: ♪ (liquid churning) SANTOS: SOFIA: SANTOS: SOFIA: ♪ ♪ ♪ (thunder rumbling) ♪ BENJAMIN: ARISTEO: BENJAMIN: ARISTEO: BENJAMIN: (man shouts greeting) SANTOS: MAN: SANTOS: MAN: SANTOS: MAN: SANTOS: MAN: SANTOS: MAN: SANTOS: MAN: (dogs barking) SANTOS: MAN: SANTOS: MAN: (children playing) ♪ ♪ SOFIA: SOFIA: SOFIA: WOMAN: SOFIA: WOMAN: WOMAN: ♪ (dog barks) (recorded mariachi music playing) (dogs barking) ♪ ♪ ARISTEO: SANTOS: (birds chirping) (murmuring) MAN: MAN: (crowd murmuring) MAN: (murmuring) MAN: MAN: (man whistling) (birds chirping) SOFIA: (birds chirping) (rain beginning to fall) (thunder rumbling) (rain falling) (rooster crows) ARISTEO: LEUCADIA: (Leucadia laughs) ARISTEO: LEUCADIA: ARISTEO: LEUCADIA: ARISTEO: (birds chirping) ARISTEO: (birds chirping) ♪ ♪ (water sloshing) SOFIA: (grunts) ♪ ARISTEO: ♪ WOMAN: SANTOS: (woman speaking Spanish) SANTOS: WOMAN: (talking indistinctly in Spanish) ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (laughing) ♪ ♪ ♪ (water flowing) (birds chirping) SANTOS: (birds chirping) ♪ (children playing) WOMAN: Okay, you sure they're not gonna escape?
- I don't think so.
Maybe we should only open one tent up at a time, just to be safe.
- Yeah, I was going to say, we're in pretty big trouble if they escape, okay?
- Okay, maybe we'll do one tent.
- 'Cause you get two more tagging sessions.
- We'll do one tent, maybe, just to be safe.
Good afternoon... Did I turn it on?
No, I turned it off.
- It didn't sound like... - Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.
Welcome to Monarch Mania.
This generation of monarch butterflies is the one that migrates to Mexico.
(talking in background) Yeah, they got to go all the way, thousand or whatever miles to Mexico.
All right, we're gonna tag this one next here, so let me grab a new sticker.
We'll put this right here in the middle of the lower right wing.
Its tag number is TJA335.
One... WOMAN: One.
- Two... - Two.
- Three!
- Yay!
GIRL: Mine's staying!
(cheering) MAN: All right!
Make it to Mexico!
Make it to Mexico!
GIRL: Hey, there's one.
WOMAN: Hasta la vista.
MAN: There they go-- are there any that didn't... (talking in background) (fire crackling) (dog barks) ARISTEO: GIRL: SANTOS: MAN: ♪ (church bell ringing slowly) ♪ ♪ ♪ (chainsaw starts) (chainsaw buzzing) SANTOS: (hammering) (Santos speaking softly) ♪ (chicken squawking) ♪ LEUCADIA: ♪ (playing) (firecracker explodes) ♪ (fireworks whistling and popping) ♪ ♪ ARISTEO: SANTOS: ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
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