Butterfly business: insect farmers help conserve East African forests

Mongabay
Feb 8, 2019, 12:28 pm199 pts
KILIFI COUNTY, Kenya — If 51-year-old Hillary Thoya were to choose a lucky number, it would surely be 5,000. That’s the amount, in Kenyan shillings, the logger and carpenter turned butterfly farmer paid to secure his freedom a decade ago. And it was the same amount that assured him his newfound venture…

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