In 1979, somewhere in Dartmoor, a butterfly died. That would hardly have been an exceptional event, but this individual was a Large Blue butterfly (Maculinea arion) and it was the last of its kind in ...

It is the butterfly that was brought back from the dead and one of the most successful examples of insect conservation in the world. Now, assisted by climate change, the large blue butterfly is to be ...

On the 25th anniversary of the project that brought the large blue butterfly back from near extinction in the United Kingdom, ecologists are for the first time publishing the decades of research that ...

The globally endangered large blue butterfly was introduced to Rodborough Common in Gloucestershire last year. Now, more than ever, we need support so that we can continue with our vital nature ...

The Large Blue Butterfly, one of the UK's rarest butterflies, is now thriving! Once declared extinct in the UK, numbers of the large blue are at their highest ever, with the south west of England ...

Finally, some good news! Conservationists have successfully reintroduced previously extinct large blue butterflies to the UK, with the creatures populating parts of the country for the first time in ...

The mysterious disappearance of the Large Blue Butterfly across most of northern Europe was originally put down to its popularity among insect collectors. However a new study into what is described as ...

A rare butterfly once declared extinct in the UK is now being seen in record numbers after being reintroduced. Conservationists said there was a population of more than 10,000 large blue butterflies ...