Innvoative Butterfly Tourism Concept Coming To Eshowe

Butterfly Tourism you ask? The concept of walk in butterfly houses is extremely popular across the world and have proven to be highly successful community based tourism projects. Like bird watchers, there is an increasing group of nature lovers who specialize in Butterfly viewing.

The Eshowe area offers a unique chance to see many rare and unusual butterfly species, typical of the Afromontain forests. This makes Eshowe an ideal location for a Butterfly House which is currently being constructed adjacent to the Fort Nongquayi Museum.

The Butterfly Routes is the first community-based butterfly house network of its kind in South Africa featuring a variety of butterfly species according to the vegetation of the area. This is a project developed by African Conservation Trust, with funding received from the National Lottery Distribution Trust Fund (NLDTF). Situated in northern KwaZulu-Natal and extending from Eshowe to Tembe, this community-based ecotourism venture offers the display of live indigenous butterflies in a butterfly dome and butterfly guided tours in the nearby community land forest.

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