day 25 - migration, a perspective from mexico

Omar Vidal, the Director General of the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico published an essay in El Universal on November 21, titled "Migrate, or Die Trying." It begins with the poem by Antonio Machado:

"Traveler, your footprints
are the only road, nothing else.
Traveler, there is no road;
you make your own path as you walk.
As you walk, you make your own road,
and when you look back
you see the path
you will never travel again.
Traveler, there is no road;
only a ship's wake on the sea."

"Many kinds of migrations and migratory pathways exist.  They are as ancient as life on Earth.  Most are massive, round-trip seasonal journeys by land, water or air.  Others are movements of countless individuals in a single direction at intervals of a few years, sometimes referred to as emigrations and "invasions."   Whatever the case, animal migrations transcend the political borders shaped by a dominant species, Homo sapiens, which mostly reflect the consequences of past wars and current struggles...."

For the full essay, please see El Universal's website here.