BUTTERFLIES OF MADIDI

Bolivia’s Madidi National Park is rich with wildlife—birds of many stripes, mammals large and small, reptiles, fish, and a stunning array of butterflies.

Thanks to the Identidad Madidi expedition, a multi-institutional effort to describe still unknown species in the park and to showcase its wonders, we now know of a staggering 1,080 varieties of butterfly living in Madidi (950 species and an additional 130 subspecies). By comparison, there are approximately 725 in the U.S. and Canada.

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