The Charlton’s Apollo butterfly is a “living fossil” – an endemic, relict, high-mountain species found in the mountains of Tajikistan.
Global warming is causing glaciers to melt and altering microclimates in specific locations. Human activities such as deforestation, overgrazing, and the ploughing of mountain slopes are changing the habitats of the host plants needed by this butterfly’s caterpillars.
As those plants disappear, so does this rare butterfly – found nowhere else on Earth.
