Iwokrama, which lies in the heart of Guyana’s rainforest, is known worldwide for its innovative approach to preserving tropical rainforests and creating livelihoods for local communities. Their focus ...
Farmers in Tanzania are helping to conserve threatened forests by cultivating an unlikely crop: butterflies. The Amani Butterly Project is one of the schemes using butterfly farming to help locals ...
SAN JOSÉ, Costa Rica - Naturalists at The Butterfly Farm in San José get used to seeing their presentations met with a lack of attention by visitors. EDITOR'S NOTE: Information for this story was ...
A record number of one of the UK's rarest butterflies has been found at a nature site. More than double the number of silk ...
MADANGANI, Kenya (AlertNet) - For nearly 20 years, villagers who live near the Arabuko-Sokoke forest have found an unusual source of income: butterflies. Local subsistence farmers, trained by the ...
With youth unemployment being a stark reality in Kenya, it’s inspiring to find a youthful and ambitious farmer who seems to have diverted from the tried and tested modes of farming to engage in a ...
The doorways into the flight room at the Euchee Butterfly Farm in Bixby are hung with lengths of white plastic chain to create a kind of curtain that helps contain whatever species of butterfly may ...
BIXBY, Okla. -- The main crop that people will find growing at Jane Breckinridge's farm is the kind that sprouts wings. She and her husband run the Euchee Butterfly Farm, where they grow and sell ...
Even in the early 1900s, Southern California was setting trends and one curious craze in the region was a growing collection of unconventional “farms” with quirky features that frequently made ...