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Annual Impact Report 2024/25

Butterfly Conservation's Annual Impact Report 2024/25 covers a year in which the charity's UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme recorded the worst butterfly results on record, prompting a UK-wide 'Butterfly Emergency' declaration, alongside continued landscape-scale habitat restoration for threatened species and the growth of the charity's Youth Panel programme.

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Habitat creation and restoration for threatened butterflies and moths, the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (run with UKCEH, BTO and JNCC), the Big Butterfly Count citizen science survey, Youth Panel engagement programme, landscape-scale conservation projects

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (led by Butterfly Conservation) recorded data across over 3,500 sites in 2024
Key Metric 2 31 of the UK's 59 regularly-recorded butterfly species now in long-term decline - the first time over half have been in decline since monitoring began
Key Metric 3 A UK-wide 'Butterfly Emergency' declared after the 2024 Big Butterfly Count recorded the worst results in the count's history

Key Outcomes

  • Continued delivery of landscape-scale habitat recovery work for threatened species such as the Duke of Burgundy and Large Heath, in partnership with organisations including the National Trust
  • Ten-member Youth Panel (aged 18-25) engaged in shaping the charity's strategy and public campaigning through the year
  • Priority landscape mapping work advanced to target future Landscape Recovery habitat restoration funding

Geography

UK-Wide

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