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Friday, 16 March, 2001, 11:13 GMT
Picture gallery: Eden takes shape
![]() The Eden Project, a series of domes in the Cornish countryside, has been taking shape over the last decade. Now the glasshouse which aims to recreate the Earth's wild places is open.
![]() Inside the humid tropics biome
![]() A 'rope access technician'
![]() Bodelva works near St Austell, later to become the site of the Eden project
![]() Construction involved the world's biggest free standing scaffold
![]() The first roof panel being installed in January 2000
![]() Later that year, plants began appearing in the Humid Tropics Biome
![]() Humid Tropics Biome supervisor Catherine Cutler labels plants
![]() 24 males butterflies of various varieties have been introduced into the largest dome
![]() Inside the humid tropics biome
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