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What is Butterfly International ?

 

The Butterfly International website is an innovative platform supporting a global network of butterfly experts from different corners of the world.

 

The website itself is a product of an initiative driven by a new specialist butterfly monitoring group consisting of 14 butterfly experts, who are working together to synchronize butterfly monitoring globally.

 

The group will also provide support for practitioners working in the field of butterfly monitoring globally.

Aims

 

This platform aims to promote, facilitate and coordinate existing butterfly monitoring schemes as well as stimulate and guide the implementation of new monitoring initiatives, especially in gap areas.

 

The key product of this initiative is the Guidelines for standardized global butterfly monitoring which will underpin the creation of a Global Butterfly Indicator. 

 

The development of the guidelines was supported by GEO BON 's grant, which aimed to support developments of the EBV, and monitoring guidelines.

Identity 

Mission: We are driven to produce global guidelines for butterfly monitoring, which contain the latest key butterfly monitoring protocols. The guidelines are intended to stimulate synchronisation of existing butterfly monitoring schemes and facilitate establishment of new butterfly monitoring schemes in gap areas, especially in the tropics. The synthesis of all harmonious butterfly monitoring schemes would create conditions for development of a Global Butterfly Indicator. The indicator will follow butterflies trends to assess the state of and pressures on invertebrates, which will guide and inform conservation action to benefit butterfly conservation.

 

Vision statement: By 2020 a Global Butterfly Indicator is developed, which is contributing to the provision of high quality and timely information to decision-makers, conservation organisations, and international conventions and treaties. Butterfly-International wishes to see a world where people and butterflies, together with other biodiversity, live in harmony and benefit each other. 

Goals​

  1. By 2020 a Global Butterfly Indicator is developed from data of both tropical and temporal monitoring schemes.  

  2. By 2020 Butterfly International has facilitated the development of at least 5 butterfly monitoring schemes, representing most of the Earth’s major biomes, which are coordinated on a national level, but are synchronised to contribute to regional and global biodiversity policy and scenarios assessments, and altogether provide support for improved conservation action.   

  3. By 2025 Butterfly International is a robust international organisation supporting a global network of partners with local reach, and is delivering high quality butterfly monitoring data to inform evidence-based butterfly conservation action on a local as well as global levels.

Commitments​

  • To provide information to support successful strategy developments for improving butterflies conservation status around the world;

  • To help to generate butterfly knowledge from gap areas;

  • In the process, Butterfly-International will globally connect people and organizations interested in butterfly conservation.

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