The REAL truth about these BUTTERFLIES

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  • Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
  • These BEAUTIFUL butterflies need our help!
    Together, we can save the inredible butterfly, bird, mammal and reptile biodiversity that our country boasts!
    #Butterflies #Conservation #Zimbabwe #Deforestation #Beautiful
    Instagram: / butterflying_with_james
    Beautiful BUTTERFLIES vs deforestation
    This video was filmed mostly in Burma Valley, Zimbabwe, a stunning biodiversity hotspot that is under threat from illegal logging for COMMERCIAL firewood sales. This is just one example. Many other areas are threatened by rampant and uncontrolled deforestation which puts not only the butterflies at risk, but the entire ecosystem!
    Butterflies featuring in this video:
    Crenidomimas concordia, the Speckled Lilac Nymph butterfly
    Hemiolaus caeculus, the Azure Hairstreak butterfly
    Charaxes etesipe, the Scarce Forest Charaxes
    Junonia artaxia, the African Pansy
    Euphaedra neophron, The Gold-banded Forester (My Logo!! :))
    Photo Credits:
    Jono Francis (Video of Charaxes etesipe taking off)
    James and Richard Wakefield
    Ian Waters (footage of me talking)

Комментарии • 30

  • @gertrudemunonyara8559
    @gertrudemunonyara8559 2 года назад +1

    Well done James. Very informative video. We all have a part to play in conserving and protecting our environment. Keep up the good work.

  • @grahamsaundersstewart3982
    @grahamsaundersstewart3982 2 года назад

    Thank you James for highlighting the plight of these beautiful insects. People like you are the true heroes in the beautiful country of Zimbabwe

  • @margaretwakefield5807
    @margaretwakefield5807 2 года назад +1

    Beautiful butterflys.

  • @lynnejames5003
    @lynnejames5003 2 года назад +1

    Great work James! Thank you. Shared!

  • @munomadziro9093
    @munomadziro9093 2 года назад +1

    🙏thanks for raising awareness James

  • @Zimsculpt
    @Zimsculpt 2 года назад

    Beautiful video showing the importance of our woodlands/miombo. Thank you for raising awareness and making us aware of what is at risk here.

  • @liambrickhill206
    @liambrickhill206 2 года назад

    Good on you James. Thank you for taking the time to spread this message. The world (and our home Zimbabwe) needs passionate young people like you. Don't give up!

  • @namveepvtltd8569
    @namveepvtltd8569 2 года назад

    Thank you James for stopping in at Chinhoyi homeschool group and exciting our kids about butterflies. Wow. How incredible to learn that in a cocoon everything becomes mush as organs move.

    • @Butterflying_with_James
      @Butterflying_with_James  2 года назад

      It was such a pleasure and I was so happy that the kids were eager to learn:) Yes it's absolutely amazing!

  • @wilnavanrooyen4156
    @wilnavanrooyen4156 2 года назад

    Well done my fellow butterfly lover. Your presentation is very professionally done. How I wish to to be able to walk free in the field/bush, following the butterflies. James, keep up the good work.

  • @wendylapham6662
    @wendylapham6662 2 года назад

    Well done James for another excellent butterfly video.

  • @somegem6344
    @somegem6344 2 года назад

    These exotic beauties must be saved!

  • @bobaafrika6967
    @bobaafrika6967 2 года назад

    Great video🦋

  • @tsitsitsopotsa8147
    @tsitsitsopotsa8147 11 месяцев назад

    The destruction of the trees is tragic but people in the rural areas need alternative fuel. Until there are alternatives the tree chopping will continue.

    • @Butterflying_with_James
      @Butterflying_with_James  11 месяцев назад

      Yes that is true. Rocket stoves are one way to make cooking more fuel-efficient. This video, however, showed an area not where people were simply chopping wood for themselves, but where there was large-scale chopping with trucks being loaded up with wood for commercial sale.

  • @jannieolivier4996
    @jannieolivier4996 2 года назад

    Hey James,
    How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

    • @Butterflying_with_James
      @Butterflying_with_James  2 года назад

      Hey Jannie, more than a carpenter bee but less than a man with a chain-saw😂

  • @meriannebratu2921
    @meriannebratu2921 2 года назад

    Hey is anyone thinking to plant a forest/ woodland and host plant in your country because more butterflies 🦋 equals more nature 🌳

    • @Butterflying_with_James
      @Butterflying_with_James  2 года назад

      Yes there are a few people who are passionate about trees and grow and plant them. I, personally, have planted over 130 indigenous butterfly trees in our garden (very close together). We do, however, desperately need a national awareness campaign to encourage the planting and conservation of indigenous trees on a much larger scale.