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STORY-LINE:Charo Ngumbao walks through a protected Kenyan forest stalking his prey.Rather than a gun, Ngumbao carries a simple net.His well-trained eye spots his victim and Ngumbao sweeps in to catch a colourful specimen.Ngumbao is a poacher turned butterfly farmer. Since 1993 he has been swishing his net in the forest in the hope of trapping a butterfly. \"Butterfly farming has changed me from being a poacher to becoming a conservationist. By farming butterflies we reduce forest logging and destruction because we get money from butterfly farming. We sell them to the Kipepeo Project. The destruction taking place within the forest is because people want to sell timber and get money. I get money instead from butterfly farming. So I urge those who are still destroying the forest to come and do butterfly farming so that they earn a living through conservation activities,\" he says.The Kipepeo Butterfly Project was started to offer alternative and sustainable livelihoods to people living around the Arabuko Sokoke Forest Reserve.The harvesting of butterflies for international export has provided jobs for former illegal loggers and other unemployed Kenyans living in the vicinity of the reserve, by breeding butterfly pupae for export.Plant specialist Mathias Ngowyo describes what makes the Arabuko Sokoke forest worth saving.\"Arabuko Sokoke is the largest remaining coastal forest in East Africa, and it covers around 400 square kilometres. It's very rich in biodiversity and it harbours endangered species of animals and plants. There are for example around 800 different species of plants within the forest reserve.\"The Kipepeo Butterfly Project has not eliminated illegal logging in the forest reserve, but at least 15 of the butterfly farmers are former illegal loggers.About 300 butterfly farmers in total earn money seasonally from these insects by harvesting their pupae.Ngumbao brings the butterflies he has caught into a cage and awaits the butterfly to lay eggs.A female butterfly can lay about 150 eggs when in a cage, according to the African Butterfly Research Institute in Kenya.The next stage in the butterfly life cycle is the caterpillar stage, then pre-pupae followed finally by the pupae stage.The pupae are brought to the Kipepeo Butterfly Project to be sold and exported.Project Manager Hussein Aden explains where the pupae are sent.\"Live butterfly exhibits there need to import butterflies. We're on the equator here so butterflies breed throughout the year, and we export weekly when there is demand.\"The Kipepeo Butterfly Project operates under the control of the National Museums of Kenya and is one of three commercial butterfly breeding centres in Africa, according to the African Butterfly Research Institute in Kenya.Pupae are sorted according to species to be sent to flying houses, or live butterfly exhibits, predominantly in Europe and North America.Butterfly farmers like Ngumbao make 10 to 60 US cents per pupae.Butterfly World Tropical Garden in South Africa is a typical butterfly display house. Live butterflies are exhibited as a flagship insect species to raise awareness and educate.The building is heated to replicate a tropical environment.Owner Esther van der Westhuizen imports her butterflies from the Phillipines.\"The life cycle of a butterfly can be many months long. But the flight period, there where the insect has these beautiful wings, can be four to 14 days – just that long. So butterfly parks must get in butterflies every week so that they have this beautiful show. You don't import 10 – 20 butterflies in a butterfly park, it's more like 350, or 500 or even 1000 butterflies per week, that you must get in. Thus butterfly suppliers, the people who breed them, must breed huge numbers to provide this commodity to butterfly houses.\"The harvesting of butterflies from the forest reserve is considered to be a sustainable activity according to the African Butterfly Research Institute in Kenya.Gede, Kenya - 29 September 20161. Wide of butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao catching a butterfly2. Close of butterfly3. Close up captured butterfly in a net4. Wide of Charo Ngumbao walks through a forest5. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Charo Ngumbao, Butterfly Farmer:\"Butterfly farming has changed me from being a poacher to becoming a conservationist. By farming butterflies we reduce forest logging and destruction because we get money from butterfly farming. We sell them to the Kipepeo Project. The destruction taking place within the forest is because people want to sell timber and get money. I get money instead from butterfly farming. So I urge those who are still destroying the forest to come and do butterfly farming so that they earn a living through conservation activities.\"6. Wide of Kipepeo Butterfly Project7. Wide of butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao demonstrating catching a butterfly8. Close of captured butterfly9. Butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao walks past Kipepeo Project signGede, Kenya - 30 September 201610. Wide Mathias Ngowyo at work in his office11. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Mathias Ngowyo, Plant Specialist, Kipepeo Project:\"Arabuko Sokoke is the largest remaining coastal forest in East Africa, and it covers around 400 square kilometres. It's very rich in biodiversity and it harbours endangered species of animals and plants. There are for example around 800 different species of plants within the forest reserve.\"Gede, Kenya - 30 September 201612. Butterfly farmers sell butterfly pupae at the Kipepeo Project13. Close up butterfly pupaeGede, Kenya - 29 September 201614. Butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao enters a butterfly cage with his captured butterflies15. Butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao releases his captured butterfly in a netted area.16. Wide butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao zips up a netted area containing a captured butterfly 17. Close up butterfly eggs18. Wide butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao examines caterpillars 19. Close up caterpillars20. Close up pre-pupae caterpillarsGede, Kenya - 30 September 201621. Wide butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao exits the butterfly cage22. Wide butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao enters the butterfly pupae buying room at the Kipepeo Project23. Pan butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao sits down to sell his pupae to the Kipepeo ProjectGede, Kenya - 29 September 201624. Wide Kipepeo Project Manager Hussein Aden 25. SOUNDBITE (Swahili) Hussein Aden, Kipepeo Project Manager:\"Kipepeo is the Swahili word for butterfly. The project is unique in that our business is an insect that most people would not consider valuable. Most forests in Europe and the United States have been cleared meaning there are few butterflies left. Live butterfly exhibits there need to import butterflies. We're on the equator here so butterflies breed throughout the year, and we export weekly when there is demand.\"Gede, Kenya - 30 September 201626. Wide butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao sells his butterfly pupae at the Kipepeo Project27. Close up butterfly pupae being sorted according to species28. Close up butterfly pupae sales transactions are recorded29. Wide butterfly farmer Charo Ngumbao receives payment for his butterfly pupae30. Close up butterfly pupae being prepared for export 31. Tilt down butterfly pupae for export are carefully packagedKalpmuts, South Africa - 22 September 201632. Wide Butterfly World Tropical Garden exterior 33. Close up butterfly at Butterfly World Tropical Garden34. Close up butterfly at Butterfly World Tropical Garden35. Wide Esther van der Westhuizen walks through Butterfly World Tropical Garden 36. SOUNDBITE (English) Esther van der Westhuizen, Owner Butterfly World Tropical Garden:\"The life cycle of a butterfly can be many months long. But the flight period, there where the insect has these beautiful wings, can be four to 14 days – just that long. So butterfly parks must get in butterflies every week so that they have this beautiful show. You don't import 10 – 20 butterflies in a butterfly park, it's more like 350, or 500 or even 1000 butterflies per week, that you must get in. Thus butterfly suppliers, the people who breed them, must breed in huge numbers to provide this commodity to butterfly houses.\"37. 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