Omicron007:
To be honest, I dislike insects a lot but the butterfly stands out for me.

From the visibly crafted patterns to the brightly coloured wings and the fluttering flights, the insect is a beauty to behold.

Growing up in the beautiful neighbourhood of Rayfield, Jos, I easily remember how me and my estate neighbours used to play with different species of the beloved insect on the beautiful green lawn.

However, from reasons ranging from deforestation to climate change and others, butterflies are fast becoming scarce and rare to find these days.

When was the last time you saw a butterfly?

Vinnie2000:



Only those People closer to nature can say they have seen one recently..I.e.Farmers, Villagers,etc..

Overrated Slum, Potopoto republic, Brown roof City dwellers etc.. can NOT say they have..

FreeSpirited:
Truth is butterfly is no more common, at least for me, it's being a while I saw them. I don't care anyway.
The question is, what's are the importance or essence of having butterfly around? Do they affect us or our environment in any way? What is their contribution that should necessitate their conservation?

Conservationist should educate us. To me, all these animals have life-cycle and they can't be on Earth forever. No amount of conservation policy will change that..
And what if by conservation we are even disrupting the natural plan and system that set limit to the existential cycle of certain animals and organism? Even human spp have evolved and disappeared at some point. Do we blame evolution or nature?
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So, I want to put it to conservationist who say we should conserve this and that...imagine all animal spp never went on extinct, won't the world be overpopulated with animals today?
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Imagine Dinosaurs were still around and no spp of dinosaur, snake, lion, whale is gone...how will the world cope with such volumnous density of dangerous spp of animals?
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If u say human is the cause of disappearance of animals today? well, animals did disappear at some point, at least before earliest human civilization dinosaurs and thousands of animal spp already gone extinct, so who do u blame for that? Natural disasters?
Then since it can't be stopped, it must be part of natural cycle as well as human civilization which is blamed for decimating certain spp of organisms..About animal conservation, I feel there's so much needless noise and fuss about it.
Though we can document, keep the gene and specimen of certain animals for reserch and posterity, this doesn't require so much noise and fund as being wasted on conservation today.
Many developed country choose to conserve certain animal and leave others cos obviously they can't conserve all spp of animals..so what criteria are they employing in making this choice.?
Conservationist should address all those points and convince us why we should keep promoting conservation for a kind of animals while living others to perish

adajid209:
OP make I no lie you almost 5 years back. Butterfly them don japa from 9ja

FalseProphet1:

Flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you.

All the butterflies have left the shores of this country to neighbouring African countries cos they're are not ready to starve to death, people now eat butterflies in some parts of Nigeria, that's why the left. I see them flying back into the country when buhari leaves aso Rock..

This I have seen.

FalseProphet1:

Flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you.

All the butterflies have left the shores of this country to neighbouring African countries cos they're are not ready to starve to death, people now eat butterflies in some parts of Nigeria, that's why the left. I see them flying back into the country when buhari leaves aso Rock..

This I have seen.

FalseProphet1:

Flesh and blood didn't reveal this to you.

All the butterflies have left the shores of this country to neighbouring African countries cos they're are not ready to starve to death, people now eat butterflies in some parts of Nigeria, that's why they left. I see them flying back into the country when buhari leaves aso Rock..

This I have seen.

paschal47:

DropsMic:
Very annoying creatures just won't stop eating my green vegetables