After conservationists successfully persuaded landowners not to cut back their blackthorn hedges each year to allow the rare brown hairstreak butterfly to lay its eggs, record numbers were found near Llandeilo this winter, showing a 50% increase from last year after decades of decline.
(c) David Trinks

Walisische Landbesitzer retten seltene Schmetterlingart

THE GUARDIAN

Dank angepasster Heckenpflege verzeichnet der seltene Nierenfleck-Zipfelfalter bei Llandeilo einen Zuwachs von 50 % gegenüber dem Vorjahr. Naturschützer überzeugten die Landwirte, Lebensräume zu schonen und die HEcken nur ca alle drei Jahre zu stutzzen, was nach Jahrzehnten des Rückgangs zu einer beeindruckenden Erholung der Bestände führte.

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