National Gardening Week (29 April - 5 May 2024) is here and we’re sharing our top five tips for creating a Wild Space that will be too good to miss for butterflies and moths. Whether you have a small balcony, a large garden, or a shared community space, it’s time to get those hands dirty to help nature!
Do you love nature and want to make sure it’s protected? Enter our competition to design a banner for the Restore Nature Now demonstration in London.
Join us online on Saturday 1 June at 10am where we will be joined by the incredible artist Kate Moby for the return of Butterfly Conservation’s online craft club.
Inspired by nature, Kate’s work uses a hand carved bamboo pen and powdered ink to draw colourful portraits of the animal kingdom. Stocked in many stores on the High Street you may have already seen her prints for sale.
Almost half of gardeners do not plan to mow their lawn more than once in May, a survey suggests, as Plantlife’s annual campaign to boost nature in gardens kicks off.
This survey comes following new research from Butterfly Conservation, which found leaving a patch of grass in the garden to grow long boosts butterfly numbers, particularly in urban spaces and areas of intensive agriculture.
People in Northern Ireland are being asked to join a giant treasure hunt for one of its rarest and most enchanting animals.
National wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation is asking nature lovers to look for the jewel-like Forester moth from this week onwards.
The iridescent blue-green insect was once common across the UK, but now in Northern Ireland has just one known breeding site left.
The Big Butterfly Count is back from 12 July - 4 August 2024
Leading wildlife charity, Butterfly Conservation, has revealed the dates of this year’s highly anticipated Big Butterfly Count, which will take place from 12 July - 4 August.
The annual citizen science programme attracts tens of thousands of people out into their garden, local green space or the countryside to spend 15 minutes counting butterflies and helping to inform conservation action.
Keen to create your very own Wild Space, or add to your existing Wild Space? Here’s how to use peat-free products for all of your planting activities.
Double donations are back!
Letting parts of your garden grow wild with long grass can increase butterfly numbers by up to 93% and attract a wider range of species, according to new research from leading wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation.
The study, published in the journal Science of the Total Environment, provides the first scientific evidence that having long grass in your garden increases butterfly abundance and diversity. Creating such wild spaces may help to reverse the decline of these beautiful insects.
The latest results from the annual UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS), led by wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), show that 2023 was a mixed picture for butterflies, with some species soaring while others continued worrying declines.