Community Conservation of Monarch Forest in Mexico

After a successful summer reforestation season, Alternare began the year offering lots of training opportunities for the local communities.

Continuing with their ongoing efforts to empower communities training them to learn sustainable skills, Alternare held 42 workshops in 14 communities in the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Seven hundred twenty eight people participated, and topics ranged from agroecological techniques, construction of fuel-efficient stoves, follow up to 29 tree nurseries to produce more than 35,000 trees and evaluation sessions and planning for future activities that will be carried out during 2026.

Doña Ofe, a 65 year old Mazahua indigenous woman, from ejido San Juan Zitácuaro in Michoacán, participated in the contruction and maintenance of fuel-efficient stoves workshop, and told us that it had been a good experience for her “because she know that the stoves, aside from saving wood, will allow her family, specially her children, to stop breathing smoke that is so harmful to our lungs and eyes.” She also said that “This road will require effort and dedication and now I realize that all I have learned contributes real benefits that benefit my family’s health and that of the community.” 

MBF is grateful for your support that has allowed us to fund the above initiatives which help the local communities that live in and near the Monarch Butterly Biosphere Reserve.

THANK YOU!