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Neonicotinoid pesticides linked to butterfly declines
Neonicotinoid pesticides linked to butterfly declines
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Mediterranean blue butterfly invades south coast
A striking continental butterfly has emerged on the South Coast in record numbers for the second time in three years...
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Conservation charities support recommendations for Environment (Wales) Bill
Wales Environment Link (WEL), a coalition of 29 environmental NGOs in Wales, including Butterfly Conservation, is encouraging Assembly Members to vote to progress the Environment (Wales) Bill.
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Government must deliver a vision for nature
Nature Conservation organisations call on Government to deliver ambitious vision for nature and people
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Holly Blue defies predatory wasp - Big Butterfly Count results
Holly Blue defies predatory wasp to enjoy its best Big Butterfly Count year
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Cigarettes and alcohol ... and moths
Alcohol and tobacco lure in giant long-tongued moth from the Continent
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Droughts could cause UK butterfly extinctions
Severe drought could lead to extinctions of common UK butterflies by 2050
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Moorland Butterfly Project Receives Funding Boost
A project to protect the south west’s threatened moorland butterflies has received nearly £23,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund.
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Discover Mabie’s Precious Pearls
One of the UK’s most threatened butterflies has seen a big increase in numbers at the Mabie Forest near Dumfries in South West Scotland.
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Help Save Sussex Pearls!
A conservation project has been launched to stop the drastic decline in numbers of two of the rarest woodland butterflies in Sussex - the Pearl-bordered and Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary.
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Continental Butterfly Appears In Cambridgeshire
A European butterfly which made news headlines last month for being the first on record to survive a British winter has now emerged in Cambridgeshire, Butterfly Conservation can reveal.
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Critically Endangered Butterfly Hits 10- Year High
One of the UK’s rarest butterflies has recorded its best year for a decade thanks to 2014’s warm spring weather and work to restore its habitat, a study has revealed.
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Continental Crusader Conquers British Winter
A spectacular European butterfly has travelled to the UK and for the first time on record, survived the British winter, Butterfly Conservation can reveal.
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Torbay Thinks Big About UK’s Smallest Butterfly
Conservationists in Devon have gone to extraordinary lengths to move a colony of rare butterflies from their home in an abandoned quarry after the site was scheduled for redevelopment
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Catfield Fen Clarification Statement
Please read this correction to the article 'Catfield Threat' from page 13 of Butterfly magazine, issue 117.
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Pollinators Pushed Up The Agenda
Butterfly Conservation welcomes the Government’s National Pollinator Strategy. The newly published document is a clear steer from Government that the declines in bees and wild pollinators including butterflies and moths are being taken seriously.
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Horror Moth Ghosts In For Halloween
The UK’s scariest moth caused pandemonium in a suburban street after appearing unexpectedly in a back garden, just days before Halloween.
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Globally Endangered Butterfly Needs Your Help As Numbers Fall
One of the UK’s rarest butterflies - the Large Blue - has declined this summer at its Somerset stronghold, Butterfly Conservation has revealed.
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Munching Caterpillars Secure Wessex Watermark Award
Wessex Water have handed over £750 of funds to help support Butterfly Conservation's education project 'Munching Caterpillars'.
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Small Tortoiseshell Fights Back
One of the UK’s favourite butterflies – the Small Tortoiseshell, continued its fight back this summer after years of decline, despite enduring the coldest August since 1993, results from the Big Butterfly Count have revealed.
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Game-changing response required to tackle State of Nature crisis
A year on from the publication of the State of Nature report, Sir David Attenborough joins Butterfly Conservation and our partners to seek out game-changing solutions to the crisis facing nature.
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Blue Is The Colour At Flagship Butterfly Reserve
A flower-strewn Cotswold valley that could become home to the UK's rarest butterfly has been awarded prestigious National Nature Reserve status by Natural England.
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Big Butterfly Count Island Odyssey
A father and son team are embarking on an island odyssey to count butterflies at one of Northern Ireland’s most famous landmarks – Strangford Lough.
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Get Out For The Big Butterfly Count
Sir David Attenborough is calling on the public to become back garden wildlife detectives this summer.