A gift that shows how much you care

Whether you adopt-a-butterfly for yourself, a friend or a loved one, you will be helping secure a safer future for endangered butterflies.

Butterflies are essential pollinators that are now threatened by human acitivities and development. By adopting a butterfly with STEP, you are enabling us to continue to support butterfly conservation projects in different communities across our country.

For each ten dollars donated STEP members will plant 10 host food plants for an endangered butterfly species throughout different communities participating in the STEP program. Very few butterflies are as common as they once were. More and more of our landscapes are being built over with asphalt. Host plants are classified as ‘weeds’ and are either being torn out or sprayed with poisons for manicured lawns which as often as not destroy both plant and butterfly.

Providing food and protected environments will be essential for many butterfly species to survive. Along with education programs at STEP’s Chrysalis Conservation Courtyard and planting of suitable butterfly plants, butterfly habitats will slowly improve. There is no doubt that they are an indicator of what will happen to other wildlife, unless changes can be reversed or at least controlled.

Much can be done to help the butterflies and our environment and You can make a real difference to the future of butterflies, so please donate just five dollars and become a butterfly champion now!