Butterfly Conservation - saving butterflies, moths and their habitats
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Champions


  • Species Champions
  • 10km Square Champions
  • Species Champions

    The Upper Thames Branch has developed a Species Champion Programme which aims to increase our knowledge and conservation efforts for those species of butterfly and moth which are most threatened in our three counties. Each Species Champion specialises in one of our key species of butterfly or moth and aims to study its behaviour, abundance, range and habitat requirements. Results of these studies will help us to determine the most effective conservation activities for each of the key species.

    Our Species Champions are listed below, along with links to their reports where these have already been produced:

  • Adonis Blue: Maureen Cross
  • Black Hairstreak: Stuart Hodges
  • Brown Hairstreak: David Redhead
  • Chalkhill Blue: Nick Bowles
  • Dark Green Fritillary: Ched George
  • Dingy Skipper: Dave Wilton
  • Duke of Burgundy: Robin Carr
  • Grayling: Grahame Hawker
  • Green Hairstreak: Tony Croft
  • Grizzled Skipper: Tom Dunbar
  • Heart Moth: David White
  • Marsh Fritillary: George Osmond
  • Purple Emperor: Dennis Dell
  • Silver-spotted Skipper: Richard Soulsby
  • Silver-studded Blue: Grahame Hawker
  • Silver-washed Fritillary: Mick Campbell
  • Small Blue: Jim Asher
  • Striped Lychnis: Peter Hall
  • Wall Brown: Jack Peeters
  • White Admiral: Peter Bugg
  • White-letter Hairstreak: Mark Calway
  • Wood White: Becky Woodell

  • 10km Square Champions

    Calling all UTB Supporters - become a 10km Square Champion!

    We are very keen to enlist the support of as many people as possible to assist with the recording of butterflies in our three counties of Bucks, Berks and Oxon during the current five-year recording period (2005 to 2009). We need to have the best coverage possible of our region leading up to the production of the next "atlas" of the state of Britain's butterflies.

    One way in which YOU can become involved is by volunteering to act as a 10km Square Champion. Choose a 10km square close to your home - click here to see a map (as at March 2008) - divide it up into its 25 constituent "tetrads" (2km squares) and aim to visit each one of them at four different times - preferably in May, June, July and August so that the flying times of all our local species are covered - at least once over the five-year period.

    An hour of your time spent walking along likely-looking footpaths in your local area once or twice each week during the season to record the butterflies seen there could provide us with so much useful data. You don't have to do it all yourself, share a square with someone else or enlist the help of others to assist you. All we need to know is that someone is looking after a particular area so that we can target the gaps in our coverage more effectively.

    Will YOU help us, please?

    For more information contact:


    Dave Wilton


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