The latest Big Butterfly Count started on Friday 15th July and Sean Cassidy, Regional Environmental Manager & UK Biodiversity, has shared the following about how we can all get involved
“The Big Butterfly Count is organised by the wildlife charity, Butterfly Conservation (it runs until 7th August). CEMEX has a good working relationship with the charity and they’ve helped us at several restored sites – most notably Southam quarry.
I’d encourage CEMEX employees to get involved. It could be at work or from home. It’s really important for people to get involved because it helps the charity understand what’s happening to the species across the UK.
CEMEX UK have some great sites for butterflies and it’s not just quarries – some of our urban sites host a good number of different species and can have quite large populations so it would be good to capture this.
There is a handy ID chart on the Butterfly Conservation website, and they have an app which makes recording the butterflies much easier – thanks in advance. Link for the Butterfly Conservation website is here: (https://bigbutterflycount.butterfly-conservation.org/).”
Image – Marbled White at Southam 13/07/22