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SBBT » WORLD SWALLOWTAIL DAY: 14 June 2020

WORLD SWALLOWTAIL DAY: 14 June 2020

How Will You Celebrate?

There’s not much good news around, what with pandemics, global climate change and biodiversity loss!
How can we celebrate World Swallowtail Day together when the risk of cross-infection stops us from doing so in company?
Let’s take inspiration from nature and share our creativity through paintings, photographs, poems, quotations, stories and memories.
Let’s come together through social media to share experiences and inspire each other.
We can create resources for future campaigns, educate our children and enthuse our friends.
And we can show how we care about our relationship with the natural world.
Over coming weeks SBBT will be in touch through social media with lots of ideas for ways to celebrate World Swallowtail Day.
Do join us this year, tell us about your ideas and plans.

Start to follow our World Swallowtail Day 2020 webpage for more details and updates.
Be sure to sign up for our Newsletters (see right) and follow us on social media.

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #worldswallowtailday on 14 June 2020.

WHY SWALLOWTAILS?

The swallowtail family includes the world’s most spectacular butterflies but many of them are at imminent risk of extinction.

Queen Alexandra’s Birdwing in Papua New Guinea, Homerus Swallowtail in Jamaica and the Natewa Swallowtail in Fiji are some of our concerns.

Habitat loss, over-collecting, invasive species and climate change are the main challenges.

Many species are tropical, but they also occur as far north as Alaska and Norway and south to Chile and Tasmania. 

Amazingly, new species are still being discovered!

Birdwings, Apollos, Kites, Swordtails, Festoons, Dragontails, Gorgons and Peacocks – all are “swallowtails” – treasured wherever they are found.

More information will be shared during the campaign.

To keep fully up to date please register for our regular Newsletters on the SBBT Homepage and follow us on Facebook and Twitter.

Don’t forget to use the hashtag #worldswallowtailday on 14 June 2020.

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    Our Mission

    The mission of the Swallowtail and Birdwing Butterfly Trust is to conserve and protect members of the Papilionidae, a worldwide family of more than 580 species that include the largest, most spectacular and most endangered butterflies on the planet.
     

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    SBBT aims to build the capacity of local people and organisations to achieve long-lasting conservation and sustainable change.

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    We achieve this in four ways: we raise financial resources; convene research networks and partnerships; catalyse action, and provide scientific and technical support to conservation projects.

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