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Buglife

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

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

Activities undertaken by Buglife fall into the following areas:

The Invertebrate Conservation Trust registered as a company in December 2000; becoming the first body to bring together and represent everything concerning invertebrates.

In February 2002 the Invertebrate Conservation Trust employed its first staff member, Matt Shardlow. Two months later the Invertebrate Conservation Trust registered a name change becoming Buglife - The Invertebrate Conservation Trust; commonly known as just Buglife.

During 2003 Buglife focussed on two key campaigns. The first was to champion the importance of Canvey Wick, a brownfield site under threat of development but of huge importance to invertebrates. Home to at least 1500 species of invertebrate, including at least 30 on the UK ‘red list’ of endangered species, after decades of proposed industrial development, Buglife and Canvey Island residents commenced a three year campaign to save the site from the latest business park development threat. The second campaign saw Buglife challenging the Ragwort Bill which aimed to eradicate the plant Ragwort (the exclusive home of 30 bug species); this challenge lead to Defra amending the draft Bill so that it no longer authorised the eradication of Ragwort.

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