A conservation project has been launched to stop the severe
decline in numbers of two of the rarest woodland butterflies in Sussex - the Pearl-bordered
and Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary.
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Butterfly Conservation has set up the three-year project Fritillaries
for the Future with funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund, after experts
recorded a continual drop in the number of sightings coming in across the
county. Both species were once common and widespread in Sussex, but last
year no Small Pearl-bordered Fritillaries were seen at the only remaining site
in the county, raising fears it may have been lost from the southeast entirely.
New data from the UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) has also confirmed
that the Pearl-bordered Fritillary has undergone a 72% decline in numbers
across the whole country since 1976.
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