Conservationists in Britain have called for "landscape-wide" action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate ...

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Dr Richard Fox, head of science at Butterfly Conservation, said the survey trends showed more than twice as many widespread species had declined significantly than had increased and a third of species ...

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The Big Butterfly Count is part of efforts to track butterfly species after steep declines in the UK since the 1970s.

Conservationists have called for “landscape-wide” action to protect butterflies, as new official figures indicate declines of nearly a fifth since the 1970s. The latest annual update on butterfly ...