Killing butterflies to save butterflies

[wollastoni]

An old but interesting article : insetti.altervista.org/articoli/orsak.htm

If locals don't make money by protecting the forest, they will make money by destroying/selling it.

[Paul K]

More collectors , more butterflies saved.
Where is the logic of all uneducated conservationists.
And most stupid laws forbidding collecting, more collectors come to the undeveloped poor country , more money stays there, harvest insects and protect their habitat to produce more.

When this ideas finally get to those closed mind government puppets.

Paul

[exoticimports]

Apr 4, 2016 11:11:56 GMT Paul K said:

When this ideas finally get to those closed mind government puppets.

Paul

It will get to the closed minded government puppets when they stop profiting from the status quo.

Chuck

[wollastoni]

Apr 4, 2016 12:23:35 GMT exoticimports said:

When this ideas finally get to those closed mind government puppets.

When they will understand they can make money... but palm oil industry pays better than environmentalists...

[nomad]

Collectors are the key in Saving O. alexandrae.


www.spiegel.de/international/world/conservationists-in-papua-new-guinea-seek-to-save-rare-butterfly-a-860912.html

[deliasfanatic]

As illustrated by the photo of O. priamus.

[nomad]

Ha ha yes there is always this www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2012/jul/30/queen-alexandras-birdwing-butterfly

showing the real thing, a dead pair?


"What is worse? Legally trading a few butterflies or removing Queen Alexandra's habitat forever," asks Malaisa.