Welcome to the Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme website. This website is a resource for butterfly monitoring volunteers.
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Marsh fritillary workshop at Lullymore, Co. Kildare, 21st of August (Jesmond Harding)
LATEST NEWS
- Marsh fritillary workshop was a great success - Last Saturday over 25 butterfly enthusiasts gathered in Kildare to learn the Irish standard methodology for monitoring marsh fritillary. This marks the beginning of a pilot project to monitor this vulnerable butterfly in Ireland.
- RTE Six One News cover the Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme. Watch the two minute piece here.
- Our 2010 newsletter is out! Click here to download.
- Irish Butterflies join European count. Ireland is now one of fifteen European countries working together towards the better understanding of European butterflies. The Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme has collaborated with European colleagues to produce a report to the European Environment Agency assessing butterflies across Europe. Click here for further information.
- Annual Report 2009 is finally published! Please click here to download a copy.
- Living the Wild Life - watch the epsiode on Irish butterflies here.
- Call for new volunteers closed. Thank you to everyone who has been contacting us with an interest in getting involved. We were delighted with the huge response to the media coverage. We have over 200 new volunteers! It's now well into butterfly season and so we can't accept any new volunteers at this stage. However, if you're interested in getting involved next year, please get in contact.
- Sir David Attenborough told delegates at Butterfly Conservation's 6th International Symposium that 'Global butterfly loss is deeply worrying'. Dr. Eugenie Regan attended the conference developing further links between the Irish Butterfly Monitoring Scheme and other European Schemes. A European Butterfly Climate Change Indicator is being developed into which the Irish data will be feeding.
