The Millennium Atlas of Butterflies in Britain and Ireland Available to Purchase

People love butterflies. Perhaps this is because, apart from their inherent beauty, they are relatively easy to identify and, in this country, there are a small number of species to get to grips with. They are also “miners’ canaries” in that they are excellent indicators of environmental change and the quality of the countryside. The latter is the reason that this atlas is so important.

Launched in 1995, the Butterflies for the New Millennium Project, set out to plot the clear distributional changes in our butterfly fauna, not all of which have turned out to be for the worse. But...