{"id":96232,"date":"2021-06-23T06:32:53","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T11:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/?p=96232"},"modified":"2021-06-23T06:32:53","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T11:32:53","slug":"auto-draft-573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/PERSIAN-HERITAGE.COM\/en\/2021\/06\/23\/auto-draft-573\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombia Has the World’s Largest Variety of Butterfly Species, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"VOA \u2014 BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – Colombia is home to the world’s largest variety of butterflies, approximately 20% of all known species, according to a study published Tuesday by the Natural History Museum in London.<\/p>\n

An international team of scientists cataloged 3,642 species and 2,085 subspecies, registering them in a document titled “Checklist of Colombian Butterflies.”<\/p>\n

More than 200 butterfly species are found only in Colombia, said Blanca Huertas, the senior butterfly collection curator at the museum and a member of the research team.<\/p>\n

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An Alissa de Pteronymia “Crystal wings” butterfly lands on a flower at the Botanic Garden Jose Celestino Mutis during an exhibition in Bogota on Sept. 14, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Project researchers traveled widely in Colombia, analyzed more than 350,000 photographs and studied information collected since the late 18th century, the museum said.<\/p>\n

“Colombia is a country with a great diversity of natural habitats, a complex and heterogeneous geography and a privileged location in the extreme northeast of South America,” the report reads in part.<\/p>\n

“These factors, added to the delicate public order in the last century in certain regions, has limited until now, the advancement of field exploration.”<\/p>\n

Colombia has endured more than a half century of armed conflict, with some areas controlled by leftist guerrillas, right-wing paramilitary groups or drug lords, and with little government presence.<\/p>\n

Protecting butterflies in Colombia will also help protect its forests as well as other less likeable species, Huertas said.<\/p>\n

Between 2000 and 2019 Colombia lost nearly 2.8 million hectares of forest, equivalent to the area of Belgium, according to the National Department of Planning.<\/p>\n

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A Siproeta Ephaphus butterfly lands on the finger of a man at the Botanic Garden Jose Celestino Mutis during an exhibition in Bogota on Sept. 14, 2011.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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