The Butterflyway Project

Butterflyway Ranger activity in the District of North Vancouver is all about collaboration and expansion. Sunset Boulevard, Bournemouth Crescent laneway, Queensbury Village and Loutet Farm are some of the projects to look for this year.

Now in its third year, the Richmond Butterflyway is all about growth, not only for pollinator plantings and butterflies, but also for Butterflyway Rangers and their collaborative efforts.

Vancouver Butterflyway Rangers have planted more than 60 pollinator patches in the city, creating a north-south pollinator corridor that connects the District of North Vancouver to Richmond.

We trained two dozen Victoria Butterflyway Rangers in 2017. Since then, these keen volunteers planted pollinator patches throughout the city.

In 2017, Rangers in Markham established a Butterflyway through the former Town of Thornhill. In 2018, they grew their fleet of Butterflyway canoe gardens to 11!

More than 200 households in the City of Richmond Hill joined the Butterflyway Project this spring by planting pollinator patches in their yards.

Scarborough residents planted more than 30 pollinator patches to establish a Butterflyway in the Guildwood neighbourhood.

Butterflyway Rangers in Toronto's east end created Canada’s first Butterflyway in the Beaches! They planted more than 40 pollinator patches in 2017.

Butterflyway Rangers in Toronto’s Cedarvale-Humewood neighbourhood planted pollinator patches in a dozen schoolyards, yards and parks in 2017. They built on past neighbourhood plantings created through the Homegrown National Park Project.

Rangers in Leslieville continued growing the network of pollinator patches in Toronto’s east end by planting in lanes, schools, parks and streetscapes.

In Montreal, the Butterflyway Project continued through l’Effet papillon, which recruited 80 Patrouille Papillon in 2018.