Conservationist calls for urgent research into disappearance of British butterflies after survey reveals dramatic declines in common species over last 40 yearsMore than three-quarters of Britain’s 59 butterfly species maintain declined over the last 40 years,with particularly dramatic declines for once common farmland species such as the Essex Skipper and Small Heath, according to the most authoritative annual survey of population trends.
But although common species continue to vanish from our countryside, and the decline of some rarer species appears to maintain been arrested by last ditch conservation efforts.
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Source: theguardian.com