Butterfly boom in China's Yunnan

STORY: Butterfly boom in China's Yunnan DATELINE: May 29, 2023 LENGTH: 0:00:48 LOCATION: KUNMING, China CATEGORY: ENVIRONMENT SHOTLIST: 1. various of butterflies STORYLINE: SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ZHAO ZHIQIN, Xinhua correspondent "Do you know 'butterfly explosion'? Every year in late spring and early summer, tens of millions of butterflies emerge from their chrysalises in the Honghe Butterfly Valley in southwest China's Yunnan Province. Come with me to see the sea of butterflies." Due to warmer temperatures, the "butterfly explosion" this year occurred slightly earlier than usual. SOUNDBITE 2 (Chinese): YANG ZHENWEN, Curator of the butterfly valley museum in Jinping Miao, Yao, and Dai Autonomous County "With regard to the 'butterfly explosion' this year, we have obtained very good results from the four observation points. After analyzing the monitoring data of the 23 sampling sites, we've found that the butterflies this year are quite large and very healthy." About 80 million to 100 million butterflies

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