Butterflies and Biodiversity - facilitating the recovery of threatened butterflies
Channel: Local Land Services NSW
Date: 2021-09-27

Australia is home to over 400 butterflies, yet our knowledge about how many species are threatened or declining remains limited. Butterflies play an important role in the pollination of many native plant species and to facilitate their recovery we need to understand the threats they face and how we can work together to protect them.

Central Tablelands Local Land Services, Lithgow Oberon Landcare Association and the Saving our Species program team hosted this webinar on Sunday 26 September 2021 to talk about butterflies, threats they are facing and how we can support their recovery.

The webinar shines a light on one of our unique threatened species local to the Lithgow-Oberon-Bathurst area: the Purple Copper Butterfly.

Learn about:
• the diversity of Australian butterflies
• the Purple Copper’s relationship with a tiny ant and a spiny plant
• how the ‘Friends with Benefits’ project is looking after the species’ habitat in the Lithgow area
• how Bushcare is working to reduce threats that interrupt ‘hill-topping’ behaviour in butterflies
• how you can help us learn more about our amazing butterflies by joining the ‘Counting Coppers’ citizen science project.

For more information about the Purple Copper Butterfly, visit our website www.lls.nsw.gov.au/regions/central-tablelands/key-projects/purple-copper-butterfly