ONE BUTTERFLY–AN ENTIRE ECOSYSTEM

The Charlton’s Apollo butterfly is a ‘living fossil’ – an
endemic relict high-mountain species found in the

Global warming is causing glaciers to melt and
altering microclimates in specific locations. Human
activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, and
the ploughing of mountain slopes are changing the
habitats of the host plants needed by this butterfly’s
caterpillars.

As those plants disappear, so does this rare butterfly
– found nowhere else on Earth.