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Across the Natural World, Migration Is Sacred—and Critical | Atmos

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“As a global community, we face a choice. Do we want migration to be a source of prosperity and international solidarity, or a byword for inhumanity and social friction?” —Antonio Guterres We live in a world defined by imaginary lines—dissecting not only land and sea, but our very humanity. And while our lives are expected to conform to such containers—particularly under hypernationalist, authoritarian regimes like the one unmasking itself here in the United States—more-than-human life journeys on. Each year, billions of other animals partake in epic migrations across rugged terrains, vast oceans, and undivided skies. Here are a few of them. Every fall, hundreds of thousands of monarch butterflies begin a 2,500-mile journey from breeding grounds in southern Canada and the northern United States to the forests of central Mexico for wintering. They’ve never made this trip; it takes four generations to complete the journey, meaning a butterfly’s descendants return to where their great-gra

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