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Male Richmond Birdwing Brooch Pin
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Richmond Birdwing Butterfly Pin
5cm wide.
Brooch pin backing.
Hard enamel style colours.
$2 from each pin donated to Wildlife Queensland
I want to see these giant beauties come back to Brisbane in my lifetime. This is a dream of mine.
I have set a goal for my business: to raise $10000 for Wildlife Queensland to put towards their projects involving our local endangered species. This is how I’m starting it: with my first pin of the male Richmond Birdwing Butterfly.
$2 from each butterfly is donated to them. Nature can’t go to work and fund itself in order to save itself, we have to do it.
I can’t say for sure when this butterflies plight came to my attention. I think at first I was confused by it’s similar looking family members from the tropics (the cairns Birdwing and other variations - they are a completely separate species of the tropics and far north.)
The Richmond Birdwing is Brisbanes Birdwing: a subtropical species, thousands of kilometres away from the others. The Richmond Birdwing is vulnerable to extinction.
I read that they used to appear in the thousands through the streets of Brisbane city. Their home was the lowland forests of the coast right up to the mountains of the great dividing range. They rely on a specific native vine species for its larvae to feed on. When I read of how common they once were I immediately was thrown back in time by a vision of a beautiful past. There were still rich forests and large trees looming over the edges of the suburbs. From these the butterflies silently glided in and out of view, sweeping by for some nectar and then off again to the treetops. There was no plastic or traffic noise. In the vision it felt like a blissfully peaceful time to live in. I was filled not only with a feeling of loss for the species but also that it somehow represented the loss also of our peaceful and beautiful existence here on earth: one that was closer and more reliant upon nature and its rhythms. More wholesome and harmonious because the earth had not yet been so carelessly used and polluted. We had not yet destroyed complete regions of forests and ecosystems. I was so overwhelmed by this intense sadness for what we have lost because of what we have done and how we live. I felt embittered and grieved at the fact that I would never be able to experience this almost magical existence. Anguished because I was so unaware of the situation all this time.
The Birdwing has left Brisbane and possibly will never return again as it once was. If they disappear completely, that’s it. We will only have our imaginations of what it would have looked like. That is the inspiration behind this pin.
I want to see these giant beauties come back to Brisbane in my lifetime. This is a dream of mine.
I have set a goal for my business: to raise $10000 for Wildlife Queensland to put towards their projects involving our local endangered species. This is how I’m starting it: with my first pin of the male Richmond Birdwing Butterfly.
$2 from each butterfly is donated to them. Nature can’t go to work and fund itself in order to save itself, we have to do it.
Thank you
The Richmond Birdwing is Brisbanes Birdwing: a subtropical species, thousands of kilometres away from the others. The Richmond Birdwing is vulnerable to extinction.
I read that they used to appear in the thousands through the streets of Brisbane city. Their home was the lowland forests of the coast right up to the mountains of the great dividing range. They rely on a specific native vine species for its larvae to feed on. When I read of how common they once were I immediately was thrown back in time by a vision of a beautiful past. There were still rich forests and large trees looming over the edges of the suburbs. From these the butterflies silently glided in and out of view, sweeping by for some nectar and then off again to the treetops. There was no plastic or traffic noise. In the vision it felt like a blissfully peaceful time to live in. I was filled not only with a feeling of loss for the species but also that it somehow represented the loss also of our peaceful and beautiful existence here on earth: one that was closer and more reliant upon nature and its rhythms. More wholesome and harmonious because the earth had not yet been so carelessly used and polluted. We had not yet destroyed complete regions of forests and ecosystems. I was so overwhelmed by this intense sadness for what we have lost because of what we have done and how we live. I felt embittered and grieved at the fact that I would never be able to experience this almost magical existence. Anguished because I was so unaware of the situation all this time.
The Birdwing has left Brisbane and possibly will never return again as it once was. If they disappear completely, that’s it. We will only have our imaginations of what it would have looked like. That is the inspiration behind this pin.
I want to see these giant beauties come back to Brisbane in my lifetime. This is a dream of mine.
I have set a goal for my business: to raise $10000 for Wildlife Queensland to put towards their projects involving our local endangered species. This is how I’m starting it: with my first pin of the male Richmond Birdwing Butterfly.
$2 from each butterfly is donated to them. Nature can’t go to work and fund itself in order to save itself, we have to do it.
Thank you