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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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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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AGM Report 1st Oct 2016
Members afternoon – Hethersett Hall, Saturday 1st Oct We were honoured to welcome our main speaker, Matthew Oates who had travelled from Gloucestershire to speak to us. -
Invite to Cambridgeshire & Essex AGM
The Cambridgeshire & Essex branch of Butterfly Conservation to invite you to our AGM on Saturday 8 October. The invitation is open to anyone from the Norfolk branch. The keynote speaker, Henk de Vries, Senior Project Leader, Dutch Butterfly Conservation (De Vlinderstichting), who will speak on the topic of 'What future for Large Copper in the UK?' -
One in 10 UK species threatened with extinction, study finds
State of Nature 2016 report paints bleak picture
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Report on Warham Camp Butterfly Count – 16th August 2016
Warham Camp Butterfly Count – Tuesday 16th August 2016 Once again 5 people took part in a systematic count of the Chalkhill Blues at Warham Camp -
Report on field trip to Winterton Dunes 4Aug16
Report on field trip to Winterton Dunes 4Aug16. Fourteen people joined the butterfly walk at Winterton Dunes. -
Report on field trip to Holt Country Park on 30th July.
18 People joined us for the Butterfly Conservation walk round Holt Country Park on 30th July. -
Look out for the Speckled Wood butterfly
Head into the woods to discover a butterfly success story...
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Report on field trip to Beeston Common on 7th July 2016
Report on field trip to Beeston Common on 7th July 2016 We had 13 people attend on 7th July for a walk around this site of Special Scientific Interest and Special Area of Conservation. The area is managed by Natural England and Beeston Common Management Group. -
Butterfly Alert
Butterfly Alert Almost all species have now been seen flying. Great news for the Big Butterfly count which is now on. -
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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Butterfly Alert 23June16
Ringlets have now been reported, and today a Marbled White was photographed at Dersingham Bog -
Report of Strumpshaw Fen 14May 2016
Our walk at Strumpshaw Fen on 14-5-16 was very successful in spite of the weather forecast . . . . -
National Moth Night – Foxley Wood 11th June
We were lucky that this was organised on perhaps the first suitable night of the year; -
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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Snettisham Butterfly Field Trip 24 May 2016
Snettisham Butterfly Field Trip 24 May 2016 By Kiri Stuart-Clarke Swifts circling overhead and beautiful hawthorn blossom coloured pure white and rich blush pink were the signs of spring that welcomed us to Snettisham Beach for our first butterfly foray of 2016.But the weather was less than auspicious for butterfly hunting. -
Titchmarsh - "Plant a pot for pollinators!"
Alan Titchmarsh launches gardening campaign to help pollinating insects
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Latest butterfly sightings - May 2016
Information on the latest sighting in Norfolk from our Country Recorder -
April's moth news
Moths Count update April 2016 Spring has apparently arrived, although here in Dorset the nights are cooler now than they were during December last year. The moth trap has only been out a few times at Butterfly Conservation’s Head Office. The best night of the year so far was 13 April when 69 individuals of 13 species were recorded. The usual suspects for this time of year were the most numerous species; . . . . -
Report of our Field Trip to Lynford Arboretum on 18th May
Report of our Field Trip to Lynford Arboretum on 18th May Some twenty keen people assembled on a soggy morning at Lynford Arboretum on 18th May where we opened four moth traps put out the previous evening at locations in or around the site itself. -
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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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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