Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and Rotary donated $285,000 to plant 140,000 trees at Monarch Butterfly Sanctuaries in Michoacán.
“The monarch butterfly is the symbol of union and brotherhood between the three countries, which are precisely the butterfly countries through which our freight railway travels,” said Oscar del Cueto, president of CPKC of Mexico.
Meanwhile, the Rotary International Foundation approved a global grant for more than $155,000.
These projects are made up of the ecological programs MOMA 2022, with 130 thousand dollars, which translate into 70 thousand trees, and MOMA HOPE 2023, with 155 thousand dollars, which will become 70 thousand trees.
Therefore, through the efforts of CPKC and the Rotarians of North America, “the butterflies will continue to beautify the landscape, as the project aims to continue the reforestation of three important sanctuaries in Michoacán: Santuario Sierra El Campanario, Santuario Sierra Chincua and Cerro Pelón Sanctuary.”
It is worth remembering that since 2020, CPKC and Los Rotarios created “The Monarch Butterfly Challenge” , a fundraising program in North America, in order to purchase two-year-old Oyamel trees from community nurseries. life, which would later become the “home” of the butterflies, which stay in the country between the months of November and March.
While this August 17, CPKC, business and community leaders from Michoacán and representatives of Rotary Clubs from districts 6040, 4130 and 4140, will hold a great Reforestation Day.
They will be planting trees planted locally with resources from the MOMA 2022 campaign that raised 70 thousand trees for the El Rosario Sanctuary, between the limits of Michoacán and the State of Mexico.
“It is an honor for us as Rotarians of District 4140, to work in favor of the Monarch Butterfly, which is an emblematic seal of unity and brotherhood in Mexico and in the world,” said Maru Molina, coordinator of the program in Michoacán.
Likewise, civil society organizations have been working on forest restoration for years, such as the Neovolcanic Axis Conservation Fund, which coordinates one of the most important projects at the national level of Payments for Environmental Services in the Area.
The execution of the project is under the supervision of Biologist Eligio García Serrano, who has been conserving the monarch butterfly hibernation forests for more than three decades together with local communities and providing timely follow-up to the project in the long term.
In total, 140 thousand trees will be planted, reforesting these three important sanctuaries in Michoacán, generating a significant positive impact on carbon capture and recharge of the aquifers of the Cutzamala system, which supplies drinking water to Mexico City and the metropolitan area of the Valley of Mexico.
This project has also been crystallized through the Rotary Club Monterrey Metropolitano, Rotary Club Diamante Ciudad Hidalgo, Rotarians of Districts 4130, 4140, 6040, 5060, Patrick Ottensmeyer and Deanne Porter, Government of Michoacán, Johnson Controls, ArcelorMittal, Orsan, Even Group, NASCO, Viakable, DYASA, UPS, GATX, Grupo Acerero, Bulkmatic, Vitro, Fibra Prologis and APM Terminals, among others.
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