Restoring and joining up habitat will prevent the UK’s
threatened butterflies and moths from becoming extinct in the
future. Our latest report provides concrete evidence that
projects aimed at conserving butterflies and moths at a
landscape-scale have enabled threatened species to flourish
after decades of decline. A landscape-scale approach works by
improving and connecting land for wildlife by the coordinated
conservation management of numerous sites for a range of species
across a large natural area. The report, Landscape-scale
conservation for butterflies and moths: lessons from the UK,
also shows that measures to conserve rare butterflies and moths
have helped other threatened species as well as the habitats in
which they live. Butterflies are the most threatened wildlife
group; more than three-quarters of Britain’s 57 resident species
are declining and over 40% are listed as Priorities for
Conservation. More than 80 moth species are also at risk.Most
threatened species are now confined to small patches