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Flower covered Beetle in the Montreal Botanical Garden greenhouse, 2005. The Montreal Botanical Garden (French: Jardin botanique de Montréal, pronounced [ʒaʁdɛ̃ bɔtanik də mɔ̃ʁeal]) is a large botanical garden in Montreal, Quebec, Canada comprising 75 hectares (190 acres) of thematic gardens and greenhouses.
Butterflies Go Free (French: Papillons en liberté) is an annual exhibit at the Jardin Botanique de Montreal, featuring thousands [1] of live tropical butterflies and moths released in the Grande Serre of the exhibition greenhouses. The insects are purchased in caterpillar and egg form from sustainable butterfly farms.
The Montreal Insectarium (French: Insectarium de Montréal) is a natural history museum located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, featuring a large quantity of insects from all around the world. It is the largest insect museum in North America and among the largest insectariums worldwide. [ 1 ]
Gardens: the Montreal Botanical Garden, [15] the Insectarium, [16] Reford Gardens [17] and the international garden festival [18] in Gaspésie are among Quebec's garden attractions. Museums: Quebec has over 400 museums. [19] Theme parks: La Ronde, [20] the Old Port of Montreal [21] and of Quebec City, [22] the Village québécois d’Antan, [23 ...
The New Brunswick Botanical Garden is a provincial park located in suburban Saint-Jacques neighbourhood in Edmundston, New Brunswick.Situated on 7 hectares (17 acres) next to the Madawaska River, it has more than 80,000 plants, making it the largest arboretum east of Montreal.
However, unlike the latter, the Montreal Biodome was designed primarily as a museum, resembles but is fundamentally different from a closed ecological system such as Biosphere 2. The building was originally constructed for the 1976 Olympic Games as a velodrome (cycling stadium) with 2,600 seats. It hosted both track cycling and judo events ...
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The Paris Zoological Park was created in 1934 in the Bois de Vincennes, as space in menagerie of the Jardin des Plantes became scarce. It is administered, like the Jardin des Plantes, by the Museum of Natural History. New environments were created there for the larger mammals, including the giraffes, elephants, and hippopotamus.