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A dorsal image of The Alexandra Bird Wing Butterfly, Ornithoptera Alexandrae, Rothschild,1907. This Image has not been motiified or edited.
Photographer: Peter_Wing. (Wing, 2019)
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HELPING THE HELPLESS
Sparing is Caring
The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly is a wonder of nature that needs your help! Their habitat is being reduced by over 2% each year, and if we wait long enough there won’t even be a rain forest left (Deforestation in New Guinea.2019). Their natural habitat is the Papua New Guinea Rain Forest.The Rain forest is a major contributor to photosynthesis which reduces the amount of Carbon Dioxide in our atmosphere, thus decreasing the effect of global warming and climate change.
Helping its Habitat
The picture above shows major deforestation for the purpose of profitable logging,
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This picture shows pollen drifting away with the wind.
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The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly is one of the many species in the Papua New Guinea Rainforest that supplies ecosystem services. These services include pollination, nutrient cycling, increasing oxygen production, and many others. All these ecological processes, help to improve this beautiful big butterfly’s home (Leach,2019) You would never think this delicate, breathtaking, beauty was more than just a pretty sight. Everything it does has a purpose that helps not only itself, but its neighbors around it. All these services go into the improvement the ecosystem and the natural capital surrounding it. As well has providing these services, humans also value this species for its aesthetic value. This creature is, and should be greatly valued for how beautiful it is. This is the Biggest Butterfly in the world. A wonder of nature! Even if this wasn’t the biggest butterfly in the world. It still has a right to live. This is its intrinsic value. Everything living has the right to live, no matter what.
NOT JUST THEM, BUT ALSO YOU
No butterfly=No food
All species of butterflies are pollinators, including Queen Alexandra Birdwing Butterfly. Pollinators like this species, are the invisible backbone behind the beauty and complexity of the Rain forest(Leach,2019). They pollinate naturally occurring fruits in the rain forest such as mango, pineapple, and watermelon and many others. If the Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly is lost, all these delicious fruits that humans love to eat will eventually completely disappear, with no pollinators to help them grow. Your summer snacks of ice-cold watermelon and mango-pineapple smoothies will be gone. Is this what you want?
Indicating Our Future
This is a picture of a common fruit market, to showcase what fortunately we have due to pollinators such as the Alexandra's Bird Wing Butterfly.
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The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly is an indicator species. What is an Indicator Species? An indicator species is a species that is like a warning. When an environment is unhealthy or something is wrong and indicator species will usually disappear or start to decline (Korpella,2019). These kinds of species are saviors that are telling humans it's almost too late for an ecosystem. The Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly is more relevant than ever, due to the main threat of the extinction of humans. Climate Change. Butterflies are incredibly sensitive creatures when it comes to temperature change and the environment around them. With the decline of the Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing Butterfly, there are becoming less and less of these indicators. If we don’t act now we won’t have these saviors to tell us if it's too late!
This is a picture of a white butterfly.
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