A video about the Apollo butterfly 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗱 at the 20th Filmat Festival!
The film 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗹𝘆’𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻 Karkonoski Park Narodowy – a process that began almost 20 years ago, long before our current project started.
𝘛𝘩𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘭𝘺 𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘶𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦-𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘦 LIFE Apollo2020, carried out in Poland, Czechia, and Austria. It brings together our organisations – KPN, Klub Przyrodników, Skupina JARO , Vzdělávací a informační středisko Bílé Karpaty and European Wilderness Society – in a joint effort to protect this critically endangered species in Europe.
In the video, you can see one of the sites where our project is being carried out – the “Kruczy Kamień” Nature Reserve. Roman Rąpała, a member of our team, explains the biology of the species, how the conservation work was conducted (and actually still is), and what had been achieved up to that point and what had already been achieved by then.
The award ceremony took place in Warsaw and was attended by the creator of the video – Anna Szwałek, as well as Dariusz Kuś, our LIFE Apollo2020 national coordinator from Karkonosze National Park 
Congratulations, and thank you to everyone who helped launch these important efforts to protect the Apollo butterfly!
The video is in Polish with German translation, and English subtitles are also available. The film was created as part of the project “Śląsk – wspólne dziedzictwo przyrodnicze i kulturowe”, implemented under the Interreg Poland–Saxony 2014–2020 programme.
