Save Our Butterflies Week 2008 runs from 19-26 July

Sir David Attenborough launched Save Our Butterflies Week on 17 July at London's Natural History Museum.

Twenty UK Butterfly Survival Zones have been unveiled. The focus of this new strategy is saving butterflies across entire landscapes.

Butterfly Conservation is marking its 40th anniversary with scores of events throughout the countryside.

Get involved

• Go on a butterfly walk and get acquainted with butterflies in your area
• Take part in a work party and help transform your countryside into a butterfly haven
• Attend a talk and find out how to attract butterflies to your garden or how to monitor and record your sightings
• Look out for Butterfly Conservation at your local countryside show. Meet our members and join us in saving butterflies, moths and their habitats.

Click here to find an activity near you.

Buy the LUSH Charity Pot

There is an easy way to help butterflies during Save Our Butterflies week.

From the 21-27 July, all the proceeds (minus VAT) from LUSH's Charity Pot go straight to Butterfly Conservation.

Get down to your local Lush store and snap up a Charity Pot of fair trade, cocoa butter hand and body lotion.

Enter our free prize draw to be in with a chance of winning a Butterfly Kiss gift box.