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The colourful butterflies fluttering through Zanzibar’s Jozani Forest are beautiful to look at, but for farmers and charcoal producers in the region, they mean something more: a paycheck.
In an effort to protect the island’s threatened forest, local people are being trained to rear butterflies, under a scheme that tries to prevent deforestation by giving people a financial stake in keeping the forest intact.
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