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Villa Espil – A Place for the Butterflies

butterfly mural 12016 Villa Espil, San Andres de Giles, Buenos Aires, Argentina

  • Escuela de Educación Secundaria N°5 – Villa Espil, San Andrés de Giles. Students: Sonia Sequeira, Mónica Figuerea, Susana Lescano, Verónica Pausa

A rural town of just a few inhabitants wants to see butterflies again. Driven by this idea, they proposed to adapt gardens and town squares for butterflies to be able to complete their life cycle.

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The proposal supports not only the production of biodiversity, but also aims at the possibility of developing tourism around these small insects and the beautiful flora that allows this by creating a huge mural in the town entrance.