In 1979, somewhere in Dartmoor, a butterfly died. That would hardly have been an exceptional event, but this individual was a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) and it was the last of its kind in ...

It is the butterfly that was brought back from the dead and one of the most successful examples of insect conservation in the world. Now, assisted by climate change, the large blue butterfly is to be ...

Painstaking conservation effort to accommodate insect’s complex lifecycle pays off The biggest reintroduction to date of the large blue has led to the rare butterfly flying on a Cotswold hillside ...

The globally endangered large blue butterfly was introduced to Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire last year. Now, more than ever, we need support so that we can continue with our vital nature ...

The Large Blue Butterfly, one of the UK's rarest butterflies, is now thriving! Once declared extinct in the UK, numbers of the large blue are at their highest ever, with the south west of England ...

On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from near extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that ...

The status of the Large Tortoiseshell Nymphalis polychloros here on the Island and on the mainland is probably best described ...

A rare butterfly once declared extinct in the UK is now being seen in record numbers after being reintroduced. Conservationists said there was a population of more than 10,000 large blue butterflies ...