Mexican monarchs star

The hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies that migrate from Canada through the U.S. to remote 10,000-foot-high peaks in the Sierra Madre mountains of Mexico and then return are featured in an IMAX 3D film that premiered at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington. “Flight of the Butterflies” captures the story of a scientist’s 40-year search to find the monarchs’ hideaway while wintering in Mexico. In 2008 Unesco declared the monarch

butterfly reserve in Mexico a World Heritage Site. 

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Jimm Budd

Reporting From Mexico City

Member of the Society of American Travel Writers