Butterfly Collection from Arubuko SokokeForest, E. Kenya. Approx 98 specimens.
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The Arabuko-Sokoke Forest is located on the coast of Kenya , 110 km north of Mombasa and is protected as a national Forest Reserve. The Arabuko-Sokoke National Park is only a small portion of the Arabuko-Sokoke Forest Reserve, a few square kilometres in size and is located on the north-western edge of the forest. The National Park was gazetted only in the late 1980s and in fact straddles the Forest Reserve boundary with about 50% lying outside the boundary. This outer section actually lies outside an electric elephant fence installed in 2006/7 and is now fully inhabited by local communities to the extent that there is no sign on the ground to show where the National Park begins or ends. The National Park sadly doesn't add any particular protection to the forest which is the largest fragment of coastal forest (420 square km) left in East Africa , and is an area of high endemism , containing endemic mammals, birds and plants. Papilio x 6, Pieridae x 8, Nymphalidae x 11 Acraeinae x 9, Satyrinae x 2, Charaxinae x 25 (including about 4 Ch. blanda (endemic to the region) and both dry & wet season forms of Ch. zoolina), Lycaenidae x 38 I will try to rotate photos daily. Happy viewing! Any queries,please ask.
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