The Smith's blue butterfly may be tiny, but it's endangered in a big way. It spends its whole life within a few hundred yards of two native plants, seacliff buckwheat and coast buckwheat — and is ...

the chalk hill blue and small copper suffered their worst year ever. Richard Fox, from Butterfly Conservation, said he was “devastated” by the declines in British butterflies, which he said ...

The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme, run by a coalition of conservation organisations, has also revealed that 2024 was one of the worst on record for butterflies in the UK with species including the ...