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Dr Martin Warren awarded OBE
World-renowned butterfly scientist Dr Martin Warren has been awarded with an OBE for services to the environment.
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West Midlands: Help the Wood White Butterfly
Wildlife enthusiasts in Worcestershire are being invited to help create a home for a rare woodland butterfly...
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Environmental organisations unite for a Greener UK
BC is pleased to join Greener UK, a coalition of 13 organisations who have come together to make sure that the environment doesn't get forgotten about post-Brexit.
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Julie Williams announced as Acting Chief Executive
Julie Williams has been announced as Butterfly Conservation Acting Chief Executive...
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Vote now to save the UK’s woodland beauty!
Wildlife enthusiasts have supported a project to save one of the UK’s fastest declining woodland butterflies in the hope it will gain more funding.
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Extreme weather can lead to butterfly declines
Extreme weather can hamper UK butterflies, study reveals
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Fracking threatens biodiversity, study reveals
Several areas of the UK earmarked for fracking support some of the country’s richest wildlife, a new study involving Butterfly Conservation has revealed.
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Mystery of butterfly disaster summer
Big Butterfly Count results reveal tough summer for UK butterflies
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One in 10 UK species threatened with extinction, study finds
State of Nature 2016 report paints bleak picture
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Brown Hairstreak Bulletin - Issue 120
To view photos, 'click link' to open West Midlands branch webpage -
Look out for the Speckled Wood butterfly
Head into the woods to discover a butterfly success story...
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Attenborough 'soggy summer risk to UK butterflies'
Sir David Attenborough is warning that this year’s slow spring and soggy summer could pose a risk to the UK’s common butterflies.
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B&Q boost for butterflies
Wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is pleased to announce a new partnership with B&Q to encourage customers to take action to help butterflies and other pollinators.
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Is the UK set for a Humming-bird summer?
Is a spectacular Continental moth that acts like a Humming-bird attempting to colonise the UK?
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Titchmarsh - "Plant a pot for pollinators!"
Alan Titchmarsh launches gardening campaign to help pollinating insects
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Blitz for the blues!
A Shropshire nature reserve is hoping to turn blue this summer, after work to create new habitat for a threatened butterfly is completed. -
If you go down to the woods today
One of the West Midland’s rarest butterflies has been given a lifeline thanks to a new project to boost its numbers and reintroduce it to several woodlands in the region. -
Help hungry and homeless pollinators
Butterfly Conservation is playing a key role in a project to help our hungry and homeless pollinators.
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Butterflies of the West Midlands - new book
The West Midlands Branch of Butterfly Conservation have published a beautiful book covering all 40 species of butterfly found across Herefordshire, Birmingham and the Black Country, Shropshire, Staffordshire and Worcestershire - order your copy today! -
Small Copper slumps as butterflies struggle in cold summer
Major annual butterfly survey reveals alarming decline of Small Copper
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Help solve the riddle of back garden butterflies
A new survey aims to lift the lid on the lives of our back garden butterflies
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Retirement of Dr Martin Warren as Butterfly Conservation Chief Executive
Dr Martin Warren announces his retirement as Butterfly Conservation Chief Executive
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Brown Hairstreak Bulletin - Issue 119
To view photos, 'click link' to open West Midlands branch webpage
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Farmers Join Forces For Butterflies
A wildlife charity has been awarded £75,000 to get farmers and foresters in the West Midlands working together to help declining butterflies -
40 year slump for UK Butterflies
More than three-quarters of the UK’s butterflies have declined in the last 40 years with some common species suffering significant slumps, a major scientific study has revealed.
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Forest Haven For Threatened Butterflies
One of the UK’s most threatened butterflies has seen a dramatic increase in numbers at a forest on the border between Shropshire and Worcestershire, Butterfly Conservation (BC) can reveal.
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Brown Hairstreak Bulletin - Issue 118
To view photos, 'click link' to open West Midlands branch webpage -
Brown Hairstreak Bulletin - Issue 117
To view photos, 'click link' to open West Midlands branch webpage -