Ep 56 - Butterfly conservation and livelihoods in Kenya

Interview with the manager of the Kipepeo Butterfly Project, a conservation initiative manged in part by the National Museum of Kenya. The project works with locals around the Arabuko Sokoke forest national park to breed butterflies for export to butterfly displays around the world.

 

The project has improved the incomes of families and communities living around the forest. It has also changed attitudes from wanting protections against development removed, to supporting forest rangers. The Kipepeo Project has also allowed the National Museum of Kenya to regularly monitor butterfly populations within the forest, which have been doing well in the more than 20 years the project has been running.

 

For more information check out the Kipepeo Butterfly Project website.

 

For full show notes on the Knowing Nature Podcast website.