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    Italian museum recreates Tanzanian butterfly forest to raise awareness on biodiversity research

    by Carlos Mureithi,Luca Bruno and Sara Lemlem May 23, 2024 3 minutes
    Source: Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All rights reserved

    In a lush greenhouse high in the Alps, butterflies of various species and colors flutter freely while butterfly pupae are suspended in a structure as they grow into adult insects.

    This is the Butterfly Forest in the tropical mountain greenhouse in Trento, Italy, a project by the delle Scienze (MUSE), an science museum. It's modeled on Udzungwa Mountains, a mountain range and rainforest area in south-central Tanzania that’s one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The Butterfly Forest features plant species

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