That's a wrap on 2024! 🎉 We'd like to say a huge thank you to all of our funders, partners, supporters and members and everyone who has supported our work this year. We couldn't have achieved any of this without you. 💚🦋 Let's make 2025 the biggest year for butterflies and moths yet! #SaveButterflies #MothsMatter
Butterfly Conservation
Environmental Services
Wareham, Dorset 19,191 followers
We are a leading wildlife charity working across the UK to conserve butterflies, moths and our environment.
About us
Butterfly Conservation is a leading charity and the world’s largest organisation dedicated to the conservation of butterflies and moths. Our mission is to halt and then reverse the decline of butterflies and moths. By achieving this goal we can help create a healthier environment in which we all can live. Butterflies and moths are a vital part of our wildlife heritage and they are valuable indicators of the health of our environment. Our surveys reveal that they continue to decline at a rate that is faster than most other well-documented groups of plants and animals. Our work will benefit other wildlife and the ecosystems upon which all life depends. Butterfly Conservation’s research advises people how to conserve and restore habitats. We run programmes for more than 100 threatened species and are involved in conserving hundreds of sites and reserves. To find out more about our work and how you can get involved or become a member please visit www.butterfly-conservation.org.
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http://butterfly-conservation.org/
External link for Butterfly Conservation
- Industry
- Environmental Services
- Company size
- 51-200 employees
- Headquarters
- Wareham, Dorset
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 1968
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Manor Yard
East Lulworth
Wareham, Dorset BH20 5QP, GB
Employees at Butterfly Conservation
Updates
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Join the January Moth Challenge! 🦋🌙 Take the opportunity this New Year to challenge yourself and help provide much-needed records for the National Moth Recording Scheme at the same time. Between 1-31 January 2025, your aim is to record 10 species of macro moth and/or five species of micro moth. Sounds simple? Find out how to take part 👉 https://lnkd.in/eABqjfeJ 📷: Winter Moths - Rob Blanken #MothsMatter
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We welcome the government’s announcement to legislate on permanently banning toxic neonicotinoid pesticides Butterfly Conservation’s Chief Executive, Julie Williams said “We thank the Minister for listening to the concerns of Butterfly Conservation’s members and supporters. However, the current process for assessing emergency authorisations is clearly not fit for purpose and poses an on-going risk to butterflies and moths until that legislation comes into force.” Read more on the announcement here 👉 https://lnkd.in/ewDfpxNx #ButterflyEmergency
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While it might be a little early for Easter, winter is the best time to look for butterfly eggs! 🥚❄️ This festive period, hardy volunteers will be wrapping up warm and heading out to search for the tiny white eggs of the elusive Brown Hairstreak (Thecla betulae). Find out more and how you can get involved 👇 https://lnkd.in/gzgqyYbe 📷: Will Langdon, Gillian Thompson, Paul Taylor
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Do you know your Quakers from your Drabs? 🤔 When comparing the number of species you can learn to identify in the UK, moths far outnumber butterflies! Brush up on your moth identification skills with our online series with expert Phil Sterling, focusing on commonly misidentified species. Watch on our YouTube channel 👇 https://lnkd.in/ePz7anKX 📷: Red-line Quaker - Iain H Leach #MothsMatter
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📢 NEW PhD opportunity: Impacts of light pollution, and other drivers, on UK moth communities and associated plant pollination New evidence shows diverse impacts of artificial light across most life stages and key behaviours of moths (Boyes et al. 2021), with light pollution reducing nocturnal pollinator visits to flowers by 62% (Knop et al. 2017). This PhD will help address key evidence gaps to provide critical scientific insights to better inform policy and practices to safeguard pollinating moths. For full details and to apply 👉 https://lnkd.in/e5AXeDh8 Closing date for applications is Monday 20 January 2025 University of Reading Natural History Museum 📷: Phil Sterling
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Happy #MothMonday! You might spot this moth in orbit this month 🛰️ The Satellite (Eupsilia transversa) can be found in areas of woodland and scrub from October through to April. This long-lived moth does not truly hibernate, active on mild nights throughout the winter. Caterpillars feed on deciduous trees but also have a carnivorous tendency towards larvae of other species! 🐛😯 📷: Iain H Leach, Patrick Clement #MothsMatter
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Want something to look forward to in 2025? 🤩 Our annual UK Moth Recorders' Meeting is back! Join us for fantastic line-up of talks, from Charismatic Clearwings in mid-Wales to surveying Argyll’s rare moths. 📍 Where: Online 📅 When: Saturday 25 January The meeting is open to everyone and anyone with an interest in moths, moth recording, and conservation. Book your place 👉 https://lnkd.in/eDdijsnx 📷: Narrow-bordered Five-spot Burnet - John Money #MothsMatter
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Top 5 plants to attract moths 🌿 Moths are fascinating insects that play a vital role in the ecosystem – plus they’re incredible pollinators! Discover the top five plants to include in your Wild Space, if you live in the UK, to help attract marvellous moths all year round 👇 📷: Bob Eade #WildSpaces #MothsMatter
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Our brilliant Bog Squad is up for an award! 🎉 Since 2014 this dedicated team of volunteers has been working hard in all weathers to restore precious peatlands in Scotland. 💪🌱 The Squad has now been shortlisted for The Great Outdoors Magazine Reader Awards 2025 in 'The Extra Mile' category. Please show your support by voting and sharing here 👉 https://lnkd.in/eXdBBih7 Voting closes this Sunday 15 December. Thank you! 💚
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