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 lisabal rated 13 months ago -
Well this site is about butterflies,
and is a beautiful site,
there is a lot of good general information
and gorgeous pictures.
Found in pages of nutmeg, thanks.
Sadly, for me, they have sections on butterflies on
various continents but don't seem to have
anything specifically on ...
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- lisabal rated 13 months ago
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Well this site is about butterflies,
and is a beautiful site,
there is a lot of good general information
and gorgeous pictures.
Found in pages of nutmeg, thanks.
Sadly, for me, they have sections on butterflies on
various continents but don't seem to have
anything specifically on Australian butterflies.
I do have a very good book on Australian Moths
but haven't afforded the butterfly volume to date.
There is a smattering of Australian species included in cheaper books
on butterflies of the world, published overseas.
Our relatively small population does not support publications
of large 'picture books' with a limited interest base.
The opinion in this article took my eye, however.
I hate the way that alternatives offered and promoted to us as 'green' are
not always fully researched, valued and contrasted against their impact.
It's equally important that information such as the following
be researched and backed up with facts.
Conflicting information can be confusing to people who are trying
to base their consumer choices on green issues
and lead to desensitisation as it all becomes too hard:
From the page: Turning your car green could wipe out the orang-utan and the butterflies of Borneo and Sumatra !
A United Nations Environment Programme report, The Last Stand Of The Orang-utan, claims that by the beginning of the 2020s, the great rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra will have all vanished. This will mean the certain extinction of the wild orang-utan, and catastrophic losses amongst other mammals, birds, and insect species. Many of the 945 butterfly species, including the huge birdwing Troides andromache and numerous other endemics are also certain to be lost.
The cause of the devastation is the massive growth of palm oil plantations, which are killing the apes and other wildlife by depriving them of their last remaining habitat.
Palm oil has become a much sought after commodity - as well as being used in food products, it is finding growing use as an allegedly environmentally friendly fuel source. Some misguided folk have even become convinced that palm oil could help save the world by bringing global warming to a halt. But, in so doing, it risks bringing about the extinction of one of the most well-loved species on the planet, and the loss of thousands of other species.
Although its origins lie in Africa, most of the world's palm oil today comes from Malaysia and Indonesia, particularly the huge equatorial islands of Borneo and Sumatra.
- nutmeg rated 16 months ago
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I haven't had a good look through this site yet, but my random dips suggest that it could prove to be a useful introduction to the life cycles and ecology of butterflies around the world.
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