Kate and William posted a photo of Princess Charlotte with a butterfly
The photo of a lovely little girl has a deeper meaning.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge shared a photo on social media of Princess Charlotte gently holding a butterfly in her arms, trying to encourage the British to help this year and preserve these beautiful insects.
In a photo shared by William and Kate on their Twitter and Instagram, the six-year-old is gently holding a red admiral in her hands.
In other photos of the royal couple, taken near the family home in Norfolk, are close-up photos of a butterfly on a lilac flower.
Charlotte is dressed in pink pants and a lovely purple T-shirt.
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The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are taking part in the world’s largest butterfly study called the Big Butterfly Count run by the Butterfly Conservation charity.
Experts again this year called on the population to help them by participating in a large butterfly count.
For three weeks, the participants should spend 15 minutes a day outside watching butterflies and then enter their observations into the Big Butterfly Count app.
"We wanted to share photos of these beautiful butterflies as part of the Big #ButterflyCount initiative taking place across the UK. Butterfly conservation encourages us all to count these amazing creatures because they are not only beautiful creatures around us but also extremely important.", they wrote.
"Butterflies are a key part of the ecosystem in which they participate both as pollinators and as part of the food chain."
Their post received 3,200 likes on Twitter in just 25 minutes.
The count began on July 16 and ended on Sunday. Participants were able to send photos and recordings of butterflies through the charity app as long as the counting process lasted.
Everyone who fights for the protection of butterflies fears that this year their number will be very small because April was warm, after which there was a sudden cold wave in May.
And the Guardian wrote that butterflies across the UK have been hit hard by the cold and wet spring this year.
Although there were more sunny days in April than usual, that month also had more frosts than usual. The next month, May, was the rainiest in the UK in 54 years. That is why the situation is very bad.
By: Olivia J. - Gossip Whispers
