Butterfly Conservation

Butterfly & moth advice leaflets for land managers

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Helping the Argent & Sable Moth

Advice leaflets for land managers to help butterflies and moths

I worked with Martin Wain, Butterfly Conservation’s Manager for the North West, to create a series of 11 leaflets for landowners in South Cumbria and North Lancashire. We aimed to create brief, accessible and non-technical leaflets to help them manage their land for the benefit of 11 threatened species of butterflies and moths:

Butterflies:
Duke of Burgundy
High Brown Fritillary
Large Heath
Northern Brown Argus
Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Small Heath
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Moths:
Argent & Sable
Barred Tooth-striped
Netted Carpet
White Spotted Sable

You can download the leaflet for the Argent & Sable moth here; please contact me if you would like any of the leaflets.

Evaluation of Butterfly Conservation’s Morecambe Bay Woodlands Project

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Front cover of final evaluation report for Butterfly Conservation

Evaluating work for the good of butterflies, their habitats and local communities

In this evaluation I had great fun working in woodlands alongside Butterfly Conservation staff and volunteers.  I used participant observation to understand the project’s community engagement, and assessed outcomes regarding employment and skills training, and habitat management against the project plans.  I also used surveys to get feedback from a wider group of stakeholders and from volunteers.

Overall I found high levels of achievement, with a small team of people delivering on seven of the National Lottery’s Heritage Funds’ outcomes in a short period of time.  Their work was clearly to the benefit of our limestone heritage landscapes, their fauna and flora, and the people that visit them.

You can download the report here.