| The Papiliorama was born in the fertile minds of its creators, Maarten Bijleveld van Lexmond, a Dutch biologist, and his wife Catheline. Built originally in 1988 in the Canton of Neuchâtel, the first Papiliorama was destroyed by fire on the 1st of January 1995. Thanks to a nationwide solidarity movement, the Papiliorama was completed only nine months later that same year. Due to a lack of space in its original location, which prevented any extension, the Papiliorama moved in 2003 to Kerzers, in the canton of Fribourg, in the heart of the Three Lake region.
Papiliorama is a charitable non-profit organisation, which aims at raising awareness about the fate of tropical forests and nature worldwide, by inviting its visitors in the heart of natural exhibits.
A sister-foundation of the Papiliorama, the ITCF, protects in a very concrete way more than 11'000 hectares (110 km2) of pristine tropical nature in Belize, Centra America. More information on www.shipstern.org 
Maarten and Catheline Bijleveld van Lexmond
Founders of Papiliorama
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