La Cruz Habitat Protection Project

In 1997, a group of citizens from Mexico and the United States foresaw the need to solve a growing problem: the severe contradiction created by the environmental right to preserve the natural habitat of the monarch butterfly, and the birthright of local people to utilize the wood forest resources of the same area as a source of income. The reforestation program will soon celebrate its 20th anniversary thanks to some of the first founders whose heart is on the protection of the monarch butterfly and its overwintering sites. This is how in 2007, those founders initiated a new U.S.-based non-profit, La Cruz Habitat Protection Project, Inc. to continue the successful reforestation program initiated by Forests for Monarchs, and maintaining the partnership with La Cruz Habitat Protection Project-Mexico.