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

nature conservation Nature conservation is the moral philosophy and conservation movement focused on protecting species from extinction, maintaining and restoring habitats, enhancing ecosystem services, and protecting biological diversity. A range of values unde ...

charity.

Structure

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 Extinction is the termination of a kind of organism or of a group of kinds (taxon), usually a species. The moment of extinction is generally considered to be the death of the last individual of the species, although the capacity to breed and ...

and to maintain sustainable populations of invertebrates in the United Kingdom and beyond.

Operation

Activities undertaken by Buglife fall into the following areas: * Undertaking and promoting study and research * Promoting

habitat management Habitat conservation is a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitats and prevent species extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range. It is a priority of many groups that cannot be easily characterized in term ...

aimed at maintaining and enhancing invertebrate biodiversity * Publicising invertebrates

History

In September 2011, Buglife contributed to BBC Radio 4's ''Saving Species'' programme. In 2015, Buglife campaigned successfully to stop a building development which had threatened the critically endangered species ''

Nothophantes horridus ''Nothophantes'', the horrid ground-weaver, is a critically endangered monotypic genus of European dwarf spiders containing the single species, ''Nothophantes horridus''. It was first described by P. Merrett & R. A. Stevens in 1995, and has on ...

'' (also known as the Horrid ground-weaver).

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* * 2002 establishments in the United Kingdom Charities based in England Conservation in the United Kingdom Entomological organizations Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom Organisations based in Peterborough Organizations established in 2002 {{UK-org-stub