Kipepeo Project — Attraction in Watamu ward

Kipepeo stands for butterfly in swahili. Kipepeo butterfly project, in Gede, on the coast of Kenya, is a small community-based project that links conservation and development. It helps local farmers to earn a living from the forest by rearing butterfly and moth pupae for export to live exhibits and butterfly houses in Europe, America.and Arabic countries. Serious farmers can make as much as 6000 shillings a month. There is I enclosed space with brushes and flowers where butterflies fly free around. A friendly guide shows you around and gives additional information using charts on the walls. There is also an area where pupae are kept to hatch. A very...

Beautiful place to visit with slot of tiny wildlife to see butterfly and other insects you learn the difference between butterfly and moths their lifecycles similarities and difference appreciate how delicate the ecosystem is and how crucial it's balance is and effects of imbalance The entrance is currently being renovated hence slow reception at the gate But everything great starts with some inconvenience Monkeys all over the place jumping from tree to tree gede ruins is just next door with all the history lesson you been on east Africa coast Snake...

Being started by Ian Gordon the farm has strived well. Sourcing the pupa at Arabuko Forest which us done by the community who later sell them to the farm and later sold by the farm tho other nations for the sake of acquiring patterns which make decoration on fabrics, some pupa are used to make silk threads and other uses that I won't list here. One pupa goes at 75 Kenyans shillings one butterfly can lay 400eggs. I thought that...