Half of Britain’s butterflies are endangered or near extinction, a butterfly protection organization warned on Wednesday, May 25. suffer from climate change and pollution.
Four of the 62 species evaluated are regionally extinct, criticized the Butterfly Conservation NGO.
Of the remaining 58, 24 are critically endangered, classified as Critically Endangered or Likely Endangered in the UK and five other species are listed as near threatened.
This condition has worsened since the last evaluation was conducted in 2011. with five other endangered specieswhich shows an increase of 26%.
“It’s surprising that half of the remaining butterfly species in the UK are registered as threatened or near threatened on the new red list,” said Richard Fox, chief scientist for Butterfly Conservation.
“Even before this reassessment, the British butterfly was among the most threatened in Europe.”
The causes of this degradation include nitrogen pollution from agriculture and climate change.
On the plus side, some of Britain’s most endangered species, such as the polka dot pangolin (Phengaris arion), are now extinct. in the country in 1979 but was reintroduced, and Pearl of the Middle East (Fabriciana adippe), are no longer threatened with extinction thanks to the implementation of conservation programs.
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