The Big Biodiversity Butterfly Count
This year Dorothy Stringer is launching the Big Butterfly Count with the help of Nick Baker, TV presenter and naturalist www.nickbaker.tv
You can find out all about the Big Butterfly Count by visiting www.brighton-hove.gov.uk
Yesterday Dr Danahar was invited to attend the national launch at the Natural History Museum in London where he had the exciting opportunity of meeting Sir David Attenborough and presenting him with a copy of our poster of the butterflies of Brighton & Hove (you can obtain your FREE copy from any of the libraries in the city).
Dr Danahar said "Sir David was really interested in the work we were doing in Brighton and Hove and, on a personal level, it was a great honour to meet him."
STOP PRESS: At 10.00am on 14 July, the day before the launch of the Big Butterfly Count, the nationally scarce White Letter Hairstreak butterfly was seen nectaring on bramble near to the school pond at Dorothy Stringer. This is excellent news as the school has been managing the woodland for the last 12 year with this species' welfare as one of the major priorities of the woodland management plan. This is only the second verified sighting for this species on the site in the whole 12 year period.
