EU Grassland Butterfly Index 1991-2023 Technical report
Executive Summary Butterflies have been systematically monitored in Europe for several decades using standard protocols that are now adopted in over 30 countries. Butterflies are ideal biological indi...
A full report of our latest European Grassland Index has just been published. It gives individual species trends as well as the overall decline of 50% since 1991-2023. Another update will be coming soon to include 2024 (which was not a good year for many butterflies) doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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Nature Today | Grassland butterflies at shockingly low numbers
It is the height of summer in Europe, a time when many people head out into nature or to enjoy urban greenspaces . But over recent decades, people are seeing landscapes with fewer and fewer butterfl...
Grassland #butterflies keep declining in Europe. Since 1991, the average abundance of the 17 grassland butterfly species has declined by 50% in 2023, highlighting the urgent need for more actions to protect and restore natural and semi-natural grassland habitats.
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Butterflies extinct in NL: Pearl-bordered Fritillary (zilvervlek, Boloria euphrosyne). Always rare, only 219 records. Would pop up at a site (from D or B?), could be abundant for a few years, and then disappeared again. Last collected specimen from 1959, after that only a few claims without evidence
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RinkWatch
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Canada is the same⦠so much that we have some outdoor ice rink monitoring scheme; all this while we are still extracting and load of exporting fossil fuel.
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Simple and effective communication
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Excellent! So relevant to reflect on this, well done
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UK injects Β£14.5 million in land use and net zero research
Five UK research projects have each received a share of Β£14.5 million under phase two of the Transforming Land Use for Net Zero, Nature and People programme.
Great news 5 UK research projects, looking at soil health, land use & agriculture responses to net zero, have received funding by UK Research & Innovation & government partners. BTO will look at biodiversity consequences of each scenario. www.ukri.org/news/uk-inje...
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Coalition of authors, editors, reviewers and society members working to make scientific publishing more accessible, affordable, and equitable. https://peeer.net
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