Highway officials have shut down a major through way in Taiwan to allow safe passage to the beautiful purple milkweed butterfly. Millions migrate across or along the route during mating season. The shut down is estimated to cost $30,000.
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"Human beings need to coexist with the other species, even if they are tiny butterflies," Lee Thay-ming, of the National Freeway Bureau, told the AFP news agency.
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