11/05/2026
🦋 What if every place had its own butterfly calendar?
Not a calendar with butterflies.
A calendar that tells you which butterflies can actually be seen in a given month—at that very location.
This International Day for Biological Diversity (22 May), we are launching 10 Butterfly Diversity Calendars developed for police stations in Navi Mumbai under Project Butterfly Patrol and Butterfly Express of INaturewatch Foundation
Each calendar is unique to its police station and is built using real butterfly observation data collected from their own butterfly gardens. The idea is simple yet powerful: the butterflies featured in the calendar are those actually recorded from the garden across different months of the year.
So if it is May, visitors and staff may learn that the Blue Tiger is likely to be seen. In another month, a different butterfly takes centre stage.
🌿 Why does this matter?
Because biodiversity becomes meaningful when it feels local, visible, and personal.
These calendars are more than posters. They are:
✔ A celebration of hyperlocal biodiversity
✔ A visual reminder of seasonal ecological change
✔ A way to build ownership and pride in green spaces
✔ A gentle invitation to observe nature more closely
Most importantly, it transforms butterfly gardens into living biodiversity classrooms—even in unexpected places like police stations.
After all, every place, no matter how urban, has its own ecological story to tell.
