Biggest butterfly project to date

The South East England Woodlands Project focuses on one of the UK’s most heavily wooded regions.

Here, declines - including those of the Pearl-bordered Fritillary, of the Duke of Burgundy, and of the Argent & Sable moth - have been the greatest.

The South East’s woods have suffered from a chronic lack of management. Butterfly Conservation, with support from the Forestry Commission, will be showing how sustainable management can reap huge benefits for wildlife. It will also help people enjoy the woods and forests more.

The project builds on work already being done by many Butterfly Conservation members, volunteers and partner organizations.

Butterfly Conservation will be using three very special woodland landscapes:

• Rother Woods near Rye in East Sussex
• Denge Woods near Canterbury in Kent
• Tytherley Woods on the Hampshire/Wiltshire border

Contact

Email your comments or queries to Dr Dan Hoare, Senior Regional Development Officer for the South-East.

Funders

The project is made possible by a £289,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant and a £200,000 grant from the Tubney Charitable Trust. Total expenditure from all sources on the three-year scheme will be close to £900,000.