A new approach is building on existing efforts to protect the sites where butterflies are struggling.

Colonies of butterflies surviving in small isolated pockets of land are vulnerable. Research has shown that they can be encouraged to spread their wings and expand. But only if they don't have to fly too far.

Conservation on a landscape scale means creating chains of butterfly habitat across large areas of countryside.

With this new knowledge Butterfly Conservation and their partners are embarking on some of the biggest butterfly projects to date.

The map below illustrates the landscapes being targeted by this approach.

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