Butterfly Conservation

Butterfly Conservation

Logo of Butterfly Conservation
Abbreviation	BC
Motto	Saving butterflies, moths and our environment
Formation	1968
Legal status	Non-profit company
Purpose	Butterfly conservation in the UK
Location	Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5QP
Region served	UK
Membership	Optional - see https://butterfly-conservation.org/join/type
Chief Executive	Dr Martin Warren
Main organ	Conservation Council; Sir David Attenborough, President; Jim Asher, Chairman
Website	Butterfly Conservation

Butterfly Conservation is an insect conservation organisation in the United Kingdom. It is one of the largest insect conservation organisations in the world. It is on Facebook and Twitter.

History of the organisation

The organisation was originally formed in 1968 as the "British Butterfly Conservation Society," by a small group of naturalists, headed by Sir Peter Scott. It was registered as a charity on 7 March 1968.

Function of the society

The aim of the new society is to stop the alarming decline of many butterfly and moth species in Britain, and at the same time help safeguard the environment itself. Butterfly Conservation has become the largest insect conservation organisation in Europe and publishes Butterfly magazine.

Reserves

Butterfly Conservation manages the following nature reserves:^[1]

England

Alners Gorse, Dorset Bentley Station Meadow, Hampshire Broadcroft Quarry, Portland, Dorset Catfield Fen, Norfolk Ewyas Harold Meadows, Herefordshire Grafton Wood, Worcestershire Haddon Moor, Somerset Holtspur Bottom, Buckinghamshire Laight Rough, Worcestershire Lankham Bottom, Dorset

Little Breach, Devon Lydford Old Railway, Devon Magdalen Hill Down, Hampshire Millhoppers Pasture, Hertfordshire Monkwood, Worcestershire Mount Fancy Farm, Somerset Oaken Wood, Surrey Park Corner Heath, East Sussex Perryfields Quarry, Portland, Dorset

Prees Heath Common Reserve, Shropshire Prestbury Hill, Gloucestershire Ryton Wood Meadows, Warwickshire Shipley Railway Station Meadow, West Yorkshire Snakeholme Pit, Lincolnshire Southrey Wood, Lincolnshire Stoke Camp, Somerset Trench Wood, Worcestershire Yew Hill, Hampshire

Scotland

• Allt Mhuic, Loch Arkaig
• Mabie Forest, Dumfries and Galloway

Wales

• Caeau Ffos Fach, Cross Hands
• Eyarth Rocks, Pwll Glas nr Ruthin

Organisational structure

The society is a registered charity with headquarters at East Lulworth, near Wareham in Dorset. The president of the society is (2007) Sir David Attenborough and the Chief Executive is Dr Martin Warren. Prior to his death in 2004, Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 10th Earl of Shaftesbury served as president of the society.^[2]

The organisation has over thirty regional branches covering the whole of the UK. The branches are backed by a central organisation responsible for coordination, fundraising, research and national policy matters. There are offices in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

Branch offices

Cambridgeshire and Essex Branch Cornwall Branch Devon Branch Dorset Branch East Midlands Branch East Scotland Branch Glasgow and South West Scotland Branch Gloucestershire Branch

Hampshire & Isle of Wight Branch Hertfordshire and Middlesex Branch Highland Branch Kent Branch Northern Ireland Branch Norfolk Branch North East England Branch North Wales Branch

Somerset and Bristol Branch Surrey and South-West London Branch Sussex Branch Warwickshire Branch West Midlands Branch Wiltshire Branch Yorkshire Branch

References

1. Our Nature Reserves, Butterfly Conservation website, accessed 1 October 2010
2. Earl of Shaftesbury's Obituary

External links

• Butterfly Conservation
• UK Butterflies
• Moths Count