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The Butterfly Pavilion was the nation's first stand-alone non-profit insect zoo. In its exhibits visitors see and interact with live invertebrates from around the globe.

Get Involved
Want to learn more about butterfly farming and sustainable business practices? Get involved! Become a volunteer or contribute to the Butterfly Pavilion and help protect tropical habitat around the world.

Volunteer Opportunities: Become a Tropical Odyssey Ambassador

Interested in helping in our new exhibit? Start today by signing up for a New Volunteer Orientation, offered monthly. To sign up for a New Volunteer Orientation or to ask questions email volunteering@butterflies.org or call 720-974-1868.

Benefits of Volunteering

Want to learn more about butterfly farming and sustainable business practices? Get involved! Become a volunteer or contribute to the Butterfly Pavilion and help protect tropical habitat around the world.

Become a volunteer and wing your way into a tropical odyssey. We need your help to guide our visitors through a new journey of discovery:
  • Discover butterfly farming
  • Travel with a butterfly through its lifecycle
  • Explore tropical rainforest treasures
If you are 16 or older and can give at least 8 hours each month through March 2010, get involved and make a difference! Your efforts can help protect tropical rainforests around the world! Get started by completing our volunteer application. If you have questions, please contact Kris Pohl, Butterfly Pavilion Volunteer Coordinator at 720-974-1868 or volunteering@butterflies.org. Learn more about the Tropical Odyssey Specialist position here.

Exhibit opens September 19, sign up early to make a difference!

Donation Options

Invest in our future and your own by helping the Pavilion to enhance and maintain its exhibits and programs. Your support ensures ongoing enrichment and education in our community. The Butterfly Pavilion is a non-profit invertebrate zoo dedicated to science education and conservation. With butterflies purchased from farmers in the tropics, we support sustainable agriculture in rainforests worldwide preventing deforestation and habitat loss.

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Donations accepted over the phone, by mail and through Givingfirst.org.

You can send donations to:
6252 W. 104th Avenue,
Westminster, CO 80020
or call 720-970-1866 for more information.

If it creeps, crawls, slithers, flies, wiggles or squirms, chances are you'll find it here. Come for the butterflies, then stay for the spiders, scorpions, millipedes, centipedes, horseshoe crabs, sea stars, and walking sticks. Love to learn? We also offer youth education programming, volunteer opportunities and lifelong learning. Only 15 minutes from downtown Denver. Butterflies are just the beginning.

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