Only three people have ever received honorary citizenship in Nepal. One of these was Sir Edmund Hillary, who (with Tenzing Sherpa) was the first to scale Mount Everest. The third was Colin Smith who devoted six decades to recording and describing the butterflies of this Himalayan country. Arriving from Britain […]
Regions and Countries: butterflies
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Doubtless you were as dismayed as we were to learn a few days ago that the beautiful, magnificent, harmless monarch butterfly has joined thousands of other insect species on the endangered species list: WASHINGTON (AP) — The monarch butterfly fluttered a step closer to extinction Thursday, as scientists put the […]