Butterfly Conservation Europe

27/11/2025

We love moths! 🖤🌙
They are really important for ecosystems. The better we understand them, the better we can protect them!

26/11/2025

📣The EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (EUPoMS) is published today! Understanding the populations is crucial to their protection and improvement. We need reliable data for this.🐝📊
Today, the EU announced a for pollinators to help reverse their population declines by 2030. It's a huge step forward, especially as it's the first time we've done this for bees, hoverflies and moths. There's also a great opportunity for butterflies in several countries with a reduced More info 👇

Reliable data on pollinators is crucial for reversing population decline. 🐝📊

Today, the EU announced a new EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme to help reverse the decline of pollinator populations by 2030.
Safeguarding pollinators is a key target under the EU Nature Restoration Regulation.

To ensure effective nature restoration – it is crucial to have reliable, fast and comparable monitoring in order to assess the status quo and the impact of the measures taken.

In order for every EU country to monitor pollinator populations efficiently and effectively, the Commission is providing a standardised, science-based method for monitoring pollinator diversity and populations.

The common framework guarantees that the data is:
🐝collected across all national territories
🐝comparable and reliable
🐝providing a clear picture of progress toward the 2030 target



Read more here: https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/better-monitoring-support-restoration-eu-pollinators-2025-11-26_en

24/11/2025

🐗📝New study in Germany suggests that rooting by can help to slow the succession process in threatened calcareous grassland, an important habitat for butterflies 🦋
As with everything in nature, maintaining balance is the most important thing. Researchers recommend carefully monitoring wild boar populations to prevent excessive disruption to the ecosystem.

The wild boar can help conserve protected grasslands 🐗🌱🌿

Researchers found that areas calcareous grassland that have been rooted by wild boar have higher plant species richness and diversity.

Rooting = turning over the plant litter layer to search for food items such as roots, insects and fungi.

A study looked at 60 pairs of plots, half of which were rooted by boar during winter and half were not.

These results suggest that rooting by wild boar can help to slow the succession process in threatened calcareous grassland.

Read more here 👉 https://environment.ec.europa.eu/news/rooting-wild-boar-can-help-maintain-biodiversity-priority-calcareous-grasslands-management-must-be-2025-10-27_en

©Hainich National Park, Germany

19/11/2025

✨ 🦋 𝘐𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢, the Queen of Spain fritillary 🦋
Another species summary from our German colleagues so cool to learn more about

𝘐𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘢 especially like to sunbathe ☀️ on open, vegetation-free areas. This butterfly can travel long distances in a region and also appear far from its actual habitat.

📊 German monitoring data shows a positive trend:
In Germany and Europe, the Queen of Spain fritillary butterfly is currently not considered endangered, even though stocks in some regions are declining.
More info in German 👇

17/11/2025

Last weekend, a was held in Flanders 🇧🇪 A great day for discussing butterfly monitoring and studies. We are glad to see this event to reinforce the 🦋community, share ideas and feedback. 😄

14/11/2025

All the way to South Africa to a great Greenwings Wildlife Tours next March 2026 🦋🌍

If you want to discover an incredible diversity of butterflies (almost 700 species of butterfly!) with experts this is your tour. More info below 👇

04/11/2025

Book your 2026 🦋 tour before 1 December to take advantage of the early bird discount! Mariposa Nature Tours donates to BCE for every Butterfly Tour booked. ☺️

30/10/2025

𝗔 𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗲𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗺𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗕𝗠𝗦 𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 🤗Listen to some UK BMS transect recorders talk about their experiences of and celebrate 50 years of the longest-running scheme.
Butterfly Conservation

The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme is celebrating its 50th survey season in 2025. This film highlights a few of the 2,500 volunteers who carry out butterfly ...