Buglife

Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust
Type	Conservation charity
Founded	2002
Headquarters	Peterborough
Area served	United Kingdom
Key people	Germaine Greer, president Steve Backshall, vice president
Revenue	1,572,352 pound sterling (2016)
Number of employees	23 (2016)
Website	www.buglife.org.uk

Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust (usually referred to simply as Buglife) is a UK-based nature conservation charity.

Structure[edit]

Buglife's head office is in Peterborough, England; with additional offices in Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the South West of England.

Buglife is the only organisation in Europe devoted to the conservation of all invertebrates. Actively working to save the UK's rarest little animals; everything from bees to beetles through to worms and woodlice.

Buglife's aim is to prevent invertebrate extinctions and to maintain sustainable populations of invertebrates in the United Kingdom and beyond.

Operation[edit]

Activities undertaken by Buglife fall into the following areas:

Undertaking and promoting study and research
Promoting habitat management aimed at maintaining and enhancing invertebrate biodiversity
Publicising invertebrates

History[edit]

In September 2011, Buglife contributed to BBC Radio 4's Saving Species programme.^[1]

In 2015, Buglife campaigned successfully to stop a building development which had threatened the critically endangered species Nothophantes horridus (also known as the Horrid ground-weaver).^[2]^[3]^[4]

References[edit]

^ Presenters:Brett Westwood (8 September 2011). "Saving Species Episode 16". Saving Species. Series 2. BBC. BBC Radio 4.
^ "Rare horrid ground-weaver spider stops Plymouth housing plans". BBC News Online. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
^ Morby, Aaron (11 June 2015). "Horrid ground weaver spider halts housing scheme". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
^ Morris, Steven (13 January 2015). "Rare spider under threat from housing estate plan, conservation charity warns". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 June 2015.

External links[edit]

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[BBC_Radio_4_Saving_Species-1] Presenters:Brett Westwood (8 September 2011). "Saving Species Episode 16". Saving Species. Series 2. BBC. BBC Radio 4.

[BBC_News_9_June_2015-2] "Rare horrid ground-weaver spider stops Plymouth housing plans". BBC News Online. 9 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.

[Construction_Enquirer_11_June_2015-3] Morby, Aaron (11 June 2015). "Horrid ground weaver spider halts housing scheme". Construction Enquirer. Retrieved 11 June 2015.

[The_Guardian_13_January_2015-4] Morris, Steven (13 January 2015). "Rare spider under threat from housing estate plan, conservation charity warns". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 10 June 2015.

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