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Each year, millions of monarch butterflies migrate over 3,000 miles from Canada to Mexico, arriving in Michoacan on the exact dates of Day of the Dead. To the indigenous communities that greet them, they are the ancestors returning, but this year the butterflies did not arrive. Cada año, millones de mariposas monarca migran más de 3,000 millas desde Canadá hasta México, llegando a Michoacán en las fechas exactas del Día de Muertos. Para las comunidades indígenas que las reciben, son los ancestros que regresan. Pero este año, las mariposas no llegaron.

I work as the Creative Producer of ECO (a Nuestro Futuro A.C initiative) in Mexico. Through a digital storytelling strategy, the project amplifies the voices of coastal residents and environmental lawyers from Nuestro Futuro A.C., who are leading the first legal case in Mexico to argue for whales as legal subjects and for the recognition of nature’s intrinsic rights in Baja California. Using documentary films, immersive art, social media, and a culminating exhibition, our campaign will be incorporated into the legal case as complementary evidence, following guidance from the attorneys in their litigation against Saguaro LNG Project.