Butterfly biodiversity in the Isle of Man
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Manx Butterfly Conservation has a FB page. This is a small group of very keen butterfly enthusiasts with a strong emphasis on improving conservation on the island and encouraging good management of our semi-natural habitats and gardens to encourage butterflies. At their recent AGM ...
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Manx Bird Atlas non-avian species
One of the main sources of butterfly data in the MBRP database is from the records collected by the Bird Atlas survey team during ... to ... (ref to book) show map. UK Butterfly Conservation
See website UK Butterfly Conservation ... ref to the bookButterflies for the New Millennium (BNM),
which has been running since 1995, is the recording scheme for butterflies in Britain and Ireland, including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. It is organised by Butterfly Conservation and the Biological Records Centre and in the Republic of Ireland by the Dublin Naturalists Field Club. Up-to-date records are always needed for conservation, public education and research.
So that national deadlines can be met, please send butterfly records by the end of November to the BNM Co-ordinator for the Isle of Man via email to: philippa.tomlinson@gov.im For more information see BNM Please use the Recording Form provided. 2011 ReportRecording
why are butterflies important to record? The UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) http://www.ukbms.org/ Butterflies are uniquely placed amongst British terrestrial insect and other invertebrate groups to act as indicators of the state of the environment, allowing us to assess the impacts of climate change and the progress of government policy initiatives such as the UK Biodiversity Action Plan, agri-environment schemes and site condition monitoring of Sites of Special Scientific Interest (SSSIs). Not only are butterflies biologically suitable as indicator species, having rapid lifecycles and, in many cases, high sensitivity to environmental conditions, but the recording and monitoring volunteer networks and datasets built up by Butterfly Conservation (BC) and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) enable accurate assessment of their trends.