Belugas and Butterflies at Vancouver Aquarium

By Helen Lee

Vancouver, Canada - Today Grade 1 and 2 students from Vancouver Aquarium’s AquaCamp program learned about the lifecycle of butterflies, and released these Costa Rican creatures into the open Graham Amazon Gallery, providing beautiful visual imagery for the camera.

Thousands of amazing and incredibly colourful Costa Rican butterflies flutter carefree in the Aquarium’s Graham Amazon Gallery. This extraordinary summer-only exhibit displays part of the butterflies’ lifecycle up close as they emerge from their chrysalis and glide from tree to tree in our rainforest.

The butterflies come from environmentally-responsible butterfly farms in Costa Rica where the butterfly farming industry has thrived for over 25 years, providing farmers with economic incentive to preserve the environment.

This unique butterflies exhibit began as a test project in 1996 and became such a huge hit amongst visitors that it eventually became an annual special exhibit. The butterflies will remain in the gallery until the end of September.

About the Vancouver Aquarium:

The Vancouver Aquarium is a global leader in connecting people to our natural world, and a self-supporting, non-profit association dedicated to effecting the conservation of aquatic life through display and interpretation, conservation practices, education, research, and direct action. Please visit www.vanaqua.org

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