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Dzongu - The land of butterflies.

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A young butterfly enthusiast is on a quest to chronicle the butterflies fluttering  in his native  Dzongu region and give them indigenous names in Lepcha language. Dzongu, a Lepcha protected area  in North Sikkim, is a bio-diversity hotspot and its richness in butterflies had already been recorded  way back in mid-19th century by the famous British botanist and explorer J.D. Hooker during his  Sikkim expedition.