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Swallowtails subject to new trade bans under CITES

27th November 2019 by Mark Collins

Trade bans have come into force for two swallowtails. Parides burchellanus, a Brazilian endemic, flies in riparian forest alongside streams crossing cerrado woodlands where its pipevine foodplant grows. It has become an easy target for collectors. Achillides chikae, the Luzon Peacock Swallowtail endemic to the Philippines and already listed on CITES, has been found as a […]

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Martin Partridge joins SBBT Board

31st October 2019 by Mark Collins

Dr Martin Partridge has been elected Trustee and Secretary of SBBT. A keen naturalist and photographer, he also serves as Secretary to Yorkshire Butterfly Conservation. Expert in chemical industry R&D and serving FTSE 100 companies for many years but passionate about conservation, he has established nature reserves and a brownfield biodiversity site.

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World Swallowtail Day 2019 Reports

2nd October 2019 by Mark Collins

World Swallowtail Day in June was celebrated around the world with inspiring events from Slovakia to Singapore, Sabah to Sicily and Missouri to Brisbane. Lectures, quizzes, a butterfly race, a butterfly dance and field trips were amongst the projects reaching out to people far and wide. See videos, reports and pictures here.

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Update on Fiji’s Natewa Swallowtail

2nd October 2019 by Mark Collins

SBBT Associate Clive Huggins has reported on his 5-week sojourn in Vanua Levu researching the newly described Natewa Swallowtail Papilio natewa. A forest species, the butterfly’s foodplant has been found and is being identified. Breeding year-round but very narrowly distributed on a remote peninsula, the species needs to be protected from overseas collectors. Details here.

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Master’s Students Join SBBT

22nd March 2019 by Mark Collins

Two Master’s students, Susie Hills and Hamish Lillywhite are starting work on the conditions needed by the British Swallowtail and its foodplant, Milk-parsley, in East Anglia’s fens. Their projects are a direct result of our 2017 workshop, the first step in a partnership between SBBT and the University of East Anglia’s School of Biological Sciences.

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Swallowtails subject to new trade bans under CITES

27th November 2019

Trade bans have come into force for two swallowtails. Parides burchellanus, a Brazilian endemic, flies in riparian forest alongside streams crossing cerrado woodlands where its pipevine foodplant grows. It has become an easy target for collectors. Achillides chikae, the Luzon Peacock Swallowtail endemic to the Philippines and already listed on CITES, has been found as a […]

Martin Partridge joins SBBT Board

31st October 2019

Dr Martin Partridge has been elected Trustee and Secretary of SBBT. A keen naturalist and photographer, he also serves as Secretary to Yorkshire Butterfly Conservation. Expert in chemical industry R&D and serving FTSE 100 companies for many years but passionate about conservation, he has established nature reserves and a brownfield biodiversity site.

World Swallowtail Day 2019 Reports

2nd October 2019

World Swallowtail Day in June was celebrated around the world with inspiring events from Slovakia to Singapore, Sabah to Sicily and Missouri to Brisbane. Lectures, quizzes, a butterfly race, a butterfly dance and field trips were amongst the projects reaching out to people far and wide. See videos, reports and pictures here.

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Swallowtails and birdwings are beautiful and graceful butterflies – who wouldn’t love to see them dancing in the sunlight or sipping nectar from wildflowers? But many species are under threat from agriculture, forestry and climate change. We have ideas, enthusiasm and a vision for the future. Will you help us to achieve our goals?

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