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LIVING butterflies have been pinned onto a woman's dress by officials in a bizarre and cruel attempt to highlight the beauty of nature.

Live butterflies are impaled on a dress to highlight nature[CEN]

Tourism officials have failed to impress after using steel pins to impale LIVE insects in a bid to attract visitors to a scenic spot in central China. 
Locals chiefs decided to stage a Butterfly Festival to highlight the natural beauty of the Bao Tianman Scenic Spot located in Nanzhao County in Henan Province.
But although eco-tourism has been identified in China as one of the fastest-growing economic sectors the organisers of the Butterfly Festival it seems did not really understand the basic idea of conservation.
As a result the first Bao Tianman Scenic Spot Butterfly Festival took place this weekend with the highlight of the festival being an appearance of the butterfly fairy, complete with impaled butterflies.
But children burst into tears and adults stood up in disgust and left when the woman appeared in a white dress to which dozens of living butterflies had been pinned.

The live insects are attached with steel pins [CEN]

The butterflies seem to be still alive, and many were beating the wings obviously trying to fly away from the dress but they couldn't because they had steel pins through their bodies pinning them to the fabric

Eyewitness Xiu Shih

Eyewitness Xiu Shih, 37, said: "The butterflies seem to be still alive, and many were beating the wings obviously trying to fly away from the dress but they couldn't because they had steel pins through their bodies pinning them to the fabric.
"It was really shocking and I saw some children crying and their parents taking them away. This was supposed to be a celebration of the beauty of the butterfly and of the natural beauty of the region. The whole thing just left me speechless." 

Children and visitors were left in tears at the Butterfly Festival [CEN]

 

The region is actually one of the Biosphere Reserves of China, and includes a National Nature Reserve and an educational centre which caters to youngsters who want to learn about the environment.
In the pre-publicity for the festival organisers had promised: "A living butterfly fairy making an appearance that is sure to delight young and old."
Spokesman Ning Wang: "We wanted the Festival to encourage people's love of insects and the natural world and to encourage them to protect our fellow creatures instead of catching and killing them so relentlessly."