SBBT is pleased to announce a new project in cooperation with Operation Wallacea, an organisation that links students and academics in ground-breaking research programmes around the world. In July and August this year, two SBBT expert associates will join the programme on the remote  Natewa Peninsula in Vanua Levu, Fiji Islands, to survey the butterfly fauna […]

SBBT is pleased to announce that a workshop on the British Swallowtail will take place at Wheatfen Reserve in Surlingham, Norfolk on 27 June 2018. Following a morning of up-to-the-minute presentations and in-depth discussions, the afternoon will be spent on fieldwork with swallowtails in the reserve. We expect to see eggs, all instars and adults – […]

The Trust has awarded a grant to Stephen Sutton and his team in Sabah, to elucidate the distribution, ecology and conservation status of the Kinabalu, or Borneo, Birdwing.  This superb butterfly, now confined to the slopes of Mt Kinabalu National Park, will very soon become an icon to match the orangutan and giant Rafflesia flower. Read […]