About a month ago there were two journalist from Indonesian edition of Reader's Digest. They were on assignment to cover a story about Gita Persada Butterfly Park founder, Dr. Herawati Soekardi and about the park it self.
One month after that the article published on Indonesia Reader's Digest March Edition. It's on page 95 to 100.
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This yellow gorgon or Sickle wing, is one special Papilionid. The latin for yellow gorgon is Maendrusa payeni or Dabasa payeni. This Papilionid's brown mimicking the Nymphalid is quite rare in this family. The gorgon found sipping on Air Mata Pengantin Flower (This flower direct translation literally means Bride's Tears Flower). We update some spesies from Lycaenidae family. This update includes: Gita Persada Butterfly Park has built a new tree house. This tree house attached on a big candle nut tree. Made from bamboo, this tree house will be the new addition for the eco-tourism package in lampung. We plan to build some more of these tree houses in the next two years to accommodate more tourists. Again, we visited the Bukit Barisan Selatan. We were awed by the biodiversity richness there. For this spirit we visited this national park again. This time we surveyed the potential places around the national park that suites the ecotourism. On the survey we shot some beautiful pictures of the largest flower ever known in the world the Raffles flower, surprisingly this flower bloom up in the tree not on the forest floor. We also took some butterfly pictures there. |