Controversial Tourism Ad of China With Pinned Butterflies

Famous for its butterflies, tourism officials from Bao Tianman, Scenic Spot in Nanzhao County, Henan Province wanted to highlight the magnificent beauty of the area by creating a ‘butterfly fairy”. However, this endeavor caused allegedly pinning several dozens of live butterfly onto a model’s dress for a photo opportunity.

This was the first part of the official Bao Tianman Scenic Spot Butterfly Festival. But the intended fairy-tale like scene turned out more like a nightmare specially for the children who watched in horror the continuous effort of the butterflies to fly without success.

Though the whole thing was supposed to be a campaign for propagating the natural beauty of the area but turned out to be absolutely opposite. The live butterflies were stuck on the fabric by steel pins and they were trying to fly away for obvious reason. Some of the children even wanted to run away from the place.

When asked about this to the official spokesman Ning Wang, said that the whole idea was to encourage people’s love of insects and the natural world and to encourage them to protect the fellow creatures instead of catching and killing them insistently.

Source: Travel & Tour World