Today is the launch of our newest reserve - Rough Bank! A flower-strewn Cotswold valley that could become home to the UK’s rarest butterfly has been awarded prestigious National Nature Reserve status by Natural England. One our of top butterfly sites with 33 butterflies, 550+ moths and 12 species of orchid to top it off. We plan to reintroduce the globally endangered Large Blue butterfly to the nationally important site in the future. The Large Blue became extinct in the UK in 1979 and is threatened across the world, but painstaking conservation work has led to its re-introduction at a tiny number of sites in Southern England.
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 09:00:50 +0000
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