The Butterfly Farm
The interest in La Selva Jungle Lodge's butterfly farm is overwhelming.
The Butterfly Farm is entering its 15th year of operation.
La Selva Jungle Lodge guests have enjoyed this attraction even more than expected.
Only 5 minutes from La Selva Jungle Lodge, a guide will take you there at least once during your stay; however, many people go back a second and third time on their own.
La Selva Jungle Lodge Butterfly Farm was designed to present an ecologically sound, sustainable alternative way to help preserve Ecuador's rainforest.
It is another step in La Selva Jungle Lodge's ongoing effort to find viable ways (besides ecotourism) to help save Ecuador's beautiful rain forest.
La Selva Jungle Lodge breeds butterflies - it does not catch them in the forest - and sell them alive all over the world.
The Butterfly Farm was the first professional enterprise of its type in South America, the only one in the world located in the primary rainforest.
La Selva Jungle Lodge produces as many as 20,000 butterflies per year from egg to caterpillar to pupae for exportation.
La Selva Jungle Lodge sends pupae to such diverse locations as a zoo in Holland, a castle in France, and Cypress Gardens in Florida where they fly in enclosed botanical gardens, spreading the message of beauty and the importance of the rainforest with every beat of their wings.
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