This Butterfly Reserve In Mexico Preserves an Important Species—and Indigenous Culture

This Butterfly Reserve In Mexico Preserves an Important Species—and Indigenous Culture

Inside the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve, a new cultural center helps protect wildlife, and sustain the local community.Monarch butterflies in Michoacán, Mexico.Credit: Getty ImagesEach fall, hundreds of millions of Eastern Monarch butterflies undertake one of Mother Nature’s most awe-inspiring journeys, flying up to 3,000 miles from their breeding grounds in the United States and Canada to the UNESCO-listed Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Res…