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Cyclone-hit Butterfly Park to flutter again
The Butterfly Park at Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, which was reopened on Thursday after being damaged by the 2014 Hudhud cyclone, would be made into the best park in the country. The World Bank has sanctioned six million dollars for development of the zoo to make it world class, but the zoo would spend its own funds to make the park unique, said zoo curator K Vijay Kumar.
​Visakhapatnam: The Butterfly Park at Indira Gandhi Zoological Park, which was reopened on Thursday after being damaged by the 2014 Hudhud cyclone, would be made into the best park in the country. The World Bank has sanctioned six million dollars for development of the zoo to make it world class, but the zoo would spend its own funds to make the park unique, said zoo curator K Vijay Kumar.
Talking to this correspondent here on Saturday, Vijay Kumar said Rs 2.5 lakh was spent on repairs and the park presently has six species and 80 specimens. He said that the six species include Plain Tiger, Common Rose, Common Marmone, Common Bull, Spotted Sword Tail and Crimson Rose.
He said that there were plans to include 25 more species, available in the surroundings, in due course. Butterflies are cold-blooded invertebrates with a lifespan of just two to four weeks. Plants on which these butterflies feed were procured and planted inside the park enclosure as also outside to attract the butterflies which can complete the lifecycle.
The plant species raised in the enclosure include aristolochic app, bombax, caltrops, ixora, citrus app, hibiscus app, Nerium app, Murray (curry leaf), polyaithia spp, seethaphal, and maredu. Boards depicting the life history and ecological importance of butterflies are displayed for the benefit of visitors.
Vizag zoo is one among the few zoological parks in the country to display butterflies. It was on May 26, 2013, the then minister for forests Satrucharla Vijayaramaraju inaugurated the Butterfly Park. In the beginning, the park had 35 different species of butterflies found in the city and surroundings.
It was the students who made the park a place of must visit. A team of 12 undergraduate science students from BVK College, who were passionate about butterflies, had put in hard work.
