ocr: Endangered species The beasty of buttertlies has often been their downfal, as they have been collected on a vass. scale. Some of the big tropical butterflies, such as the morphos from Brazi: aid the birdwing butterfiies from soutli-esst Asia and north Austraiia, have been used as decoration and in jewellery, and are. now in denger of extinction. Some of them, are protected in the wild by. law, gad a few species are now. bred in butterfy farms, Even some ofthe small butterilies from Britain and Europe are now in danger of extinction, largely because of the destruction ofthe plants on which thel ...
