Corfu Butterfly Conservation aims to inspire people to record butterfly distribution data and conserve species by influencing policy and protecting habitats.
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Corfu Butterfly Conservation has opened a Bluesky account: @ButterflyCorfu.bsky.social
If you missed the talk given about the development and future of Corfu Butterfly Conservation last night, you can catch up here: youtu.be/rFxje0Aec6I
Dr Dan Danahar will be giving a public talk on Zoom about Corfu Butterfly Conservation on Tuesday 12th November 2024. Its start time will be at 19:00 GMT.
There will be an opportunity to ask questions at the end.
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We have had some funding from an anonymous donor. This money will be used to print a second and updated edition of our Butterflies of Corfu A1 poster.
Subsequently, today I photographed the Millet Skipper Pelopidas thrax at the Booth Museum of Natural History, in Brighton.
A bilaterally symmetrical gynandromorph of the Cleopatra (Gonepteryx cleopatra) and because this was in a sexually dimorphic species we could see this clearly. Stills from a video seen in the uplands of Corfu Wedenesday 19th June 2024.
Simply a wonderful aberration of the Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia), taken in Corfu by Marina Langereis.
CBC and the Ionian Environmental Foundation had an important discussions today with Vice Mayor, Spiros Chalikiopoulos and British Vice Consul, Alison Turney, to promote biodiversity throughout the fabric of Kerkyran culture and plan for the centenary of Gerald Durrell's birth.
Corfu Butterfly Conservation (CBC) is going to employ its first CBC Project Officer, working in partnership with the Ionian Environmental Foundation, the Capodistria Museum and the Rothschild Foundation.
The signing for this agreement took place on Wednesday 24th 2024.
The Corfu Butterfly Survey (CBS) is in its 4th year.
This enables us to see that the first sighting of the Southern Swallowtail (Papilio alexanor) were 2 weeks earlier this year than in any of the proceeding 3 years.
To find out more about the CBS see:
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There are many locations where we have yet to find the Southern Festoon and this is almost certainly because of under recording. So if you are keen to help us fill in the blanks for this species, please record your sightings at corfubutterflyconservation.o….
Colleagues from the Capodistra Museum and Corfu Butterfly Conservation meet to formulise agreements about how we jointly employ our first project officer, funded by the Ionian Environment Foundation and the Rothschild Foundation.
We hope to advertise this post soon.
Some of the participants in the first CBC committee meeting of the year. This was an immensely productive meeting and we are now moving forward with a number of initiatives, more of which later in the year.
Today is the final day of the third year of the Corfu Butterfly Survey. This year we have increased the number of butterflies we have recorded by 23.3%.
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We are increasingly confident we will surpass 100,000 butterfly sightings by Dec 2025.
Just follow the link for more information.
The Corfu Butterfly Survey is a citizen science project that was set up in January 2021 by @ButterflyCorfu with the aim of learning more about and protecting the island's butterfly species (3/3)
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We have waited ten years to positively confirm the presence of a new species on the island, it is an exciting discovery!
CBC Finance sub-committee Zoom meeting 02/10/2023 - we filed our first year's accounts as a UK registered Community Interest Company!
For those who might like to understand my motivation for creating Corfu Butterfly Conservation.
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