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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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New coordinator for SBBT’s Homerus Swallowtail work

21st March 2019 by Mark Collins

John Parnell, a retired entomologist who developed a passion for the magnificent Homerus Swallowtail when he worked as a lecturer in Jamaica, has agreed to take up an honorary position spearheading SBBT’s work on the species. John joins the Trust as our vital conservation work to rescue the species continues.

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World Swallowtail Day takes off!

4th January 2019 by Mark Collins

SBBT is delighted to announce World Swallowtail Day, taking place this year on Sunday 9th June. All are welcome to register their local event or come to Wheatfen Reserve in Norfolk for the global launch. Reserves, zoos, butterfly houses and botanical gardens worldwide will join hands to celebrate swallowtails and birdwings and help us to promote conservation projects.

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SBBT Publishes New Homerus Swallowtail Video

27th November 2018 by Mark Collins

Fieldwork on Jamaica’s Homerus Swallowtail has been recorded in a new video by John Parnell and published on the SBBT project page today. In this SBBT-sponsored initiative, Eric Garraway’s team take tiny wing samples to test for DNA differences between two populations. The results will steer conservation planning for this CITES Appendix 1 endangered species.

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Swallowtail Limericks

23rd May 2020

May 12th was National Limerick Day, celebrating Edward Lear’s wonderful invention of nonsense poetry. SBBT is inviting everyone to submit a limerick about swallowtails. Take a look at the details here. We will publish them on our website on World Swallowtail Day, 14th June. Why not have a go!?

World Swallowtail Day 14 June 2020

22nd April 2020

SBBT will continue to promote and support World Swallowtail Day this year, despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. With so many nature reserves and visitor centres closed, the emphasis will be on education and networking through social media, sharing knowledge, ideas and creativity to help conserve the world’s swallowtails. Do join in!

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 […]

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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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We do four things to help swallowtails and birdwings: we raise financial resources; convene networks and partnerships; catalyse action, and provide scientific and technical support.

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Send an email to info@sbbt.org.uk, or post a letter to SBBT, c/o Hines Harvey Woods, Queens Head House, The Street, Acle, Norwich NR13 3DY, UK

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