Contract for Butterfly Project within the Foresters' Forest Heritage Lottery Funded Programme

The Forestry Commission will be awarding a contract for a project which is looking to create conditions favourable to the reintroduction of Small Pearl Bordered Fritillary and surveying and monitoring butterfly numbers using trained volunteers. This project forms part of the 'Stronghold for Nature' theme of the Foresters' Forest programme. The Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary butterfly (Boloria selene) is a UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) species experiencing continuing national declines. Once found throughout Glo...