More than two-fifths of British butterflies are threatened with extinction, with experts warning that action is needed to prevent species being lost. The latest Red List for British butterflies shows ...

Elijah Ford, conservation and education officer at All Things Wild based in Honeybourne, introduces its vital conservation ...

WASHINGTON - Global warming is rescuing the once-rare brown Argus butterfly, scientists say. Climate change is threatening the existence of many species, such as the giant polar bear. But in the case ...

Most wild species are expected to colonise northwards as the climate warms, but how are they going to get there when so many landscapes are covered in wheat fields and other crops? A study published ...

Researchers are investigating whether a rare British butterfly could be reared from eggs frozen in liquid nitrogen in an effort to safeguard the future of the species. The survival of the British ...

Willow Neal receives funding from Central England NERC Training Alliance (CENTA). The Butterfly Conservation charity’s big butterfly count asks the UK public to record butterflies wherever they see ...

A groundbreaking project has been launched to help protect one of the UK’s most spectacular insects. The British Swallowtail butterfly (Papilio machaon britannicus) is found exclusively in East Anglia ...

The Big Butterfly Count takes place over three weeks in the summer This year participants spotted just seven butterflies on average, down from 12 Some 9,000 counts logged no butterflies – the worst in ...

Butterfly populations in Catalonia in northern Spain are better than their UK counterparts at regulating their body temperature by basking in the sunshine, but rising global temperatures due to ...