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Butterfly World is located in Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, Florida. It opened in 1988, and it is the largest butterfly park in the world, [ 3 ] and the first park of its kind in the Western Hemisphere.
Farrell founded Butterfly World, Hertfordshire in 2008, the largest butterfly education and conservation center. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Farrell owns butterfly farms in Belize, Stratford-upon-Avon, and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
The Gardens, a tropical oasis in South Florida, were originally the property of Floyd L. and Jane Wray, who in 1927 built a weekend home, citrus grove and laboratory on what was then the edge of the Everglades, where they started a botanical collection of rare and unusual tropicals and subtropical exotics, fruit trees and specimens collected from around the world.
Penang Butterfly Farm in Malaysia was introduced on March 29, 1986; it was the tropical world's first creepy crawly and live butterfly haven. In the United States, the first butterfly stop, Butterfly World , opened in Coconut Creek , Florida in 1988.
The proposed US–Mexico border wall is slated to pass through the grounds of the National Butterfly Center. [7] [8] Filmmaker Krista Schlyer, part of an all-woman team creating a documentary film about the butterflies and the border wall, Ay Mariposa, [9] estimates that construction would put "70 percent of the preserve habitat behind the border wall."
The Bio-Works Butterfly Garden and Alternate Waste Treatment exhibit was added to the Museum of Science and Industry in 1996. The exhibit consists of a butterfly garden and a self-sustaining fish pond. The garden is home to over 30 species of butterflies and several aquatic species, most of which are native to Florida.
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