Ecofeminism: Bringing Butterfly Conservation into Ecotourism

Abstract

Ecofeminism, as perspective that supporting the ecology’s issues, stressing on involvement of women. In Indonesia, women are the symbol of mother nature, related to the source of life. In ecology perspective, conservation become relevant. Butterfly existence able to become indicator for habitat diversity. Herawati Soekardi in a position to lead Yayasan Sahabat Alam, consistently works for about 20 years. Her work on butterfly conservation has been able to show skills that are needed by the leaders of environmental. Ecotourism become the supporting activities for the conservation’s itself. Transfer of knowledge on importance of butterfly preservation is the crucial aspect to engage experiences on tourism.