Annual Review 2009 If we and the rest of the back-boned were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world’s ecosystems would collapse Sir David Attenborough

A Big Thank You We are grateful to the following Field Studies Council, Forestry Commission organisations that have provided !nancial Scotland, Freshwater Biological Association, To the many people and organisations who support or other gifts this year: Gar#eld Weston Foundation, Hanson Brick, have given us so much support and help this Industry Association, year. Our members and donors, who have A S Butler Charitable Trust, Aggregates Levy Insectlore, J & JR Wilson Charitable Trust, contributed enormously; our sta! who have Sustainability Fund, Amphibian and Reptile John Ellerman Foundation, John Muir worked tirelessly to promote invertebrate Conservation, Anglian Water, Big Lottery Trust, John Spedan Lewis Foundation, conservation; and our trustees who have Fund – Awards for All, Broads Authority, Jordans Cereals, Manifold Trust, National enthusiastically and professionally overseen Bromley Trust, Bugbites Books, Bumblebee Grid, Natural , News International . A special mention goes to all of Conservation Trust, Butter$y Conservation (), Norfolk Buglife’s volunteers for the huge contribution Scotland, Cambridge and Peterborough Partnership, Oakdale Trust, Pilkington General they have made and especially to Buglife’s Biodiversity Partnership, Cecil Pilkington Charity, RSPB, RSPB Scotland, Scottish #rst intern – Charlotte Bruce-White - for Charitable Trust, Chapman Charitable Trust, Environment Protection Agency, Scottish giving up 6 months of her time to work with Cobb Charity, Coda Widlife Trust, Countdown Natural Heritage, Scottish Wildlife Trust, Sita the sta! team. Thanks also to our dedicated 2010 Biodiversity Action Fund, Countryside Trust, Teesside Biodiversity Partnership, The President and Vice-Presidents for promoting Council for Wales, Courtyard Farm Trust, Engine Group (for donation of IT equipment), invertebrate conservation so e!ectively. Darwin Initiative, Defra, Dulverston Trust, The Observer, The Wildlife Trusts, Tubney Ernest Cook Trust, Ernest Kleinwort Charitable Charitable Trust, University of East London, Trust, Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Essex Veolia ES Cleanaway Trusts, Whitley Wildlife Environment Trust, Essex Field Club, Conservation Trust, Wiggly Wigglers, WREN

2 A word from our Chair

It is gratifying to look back over a invertebrates – the White-clawed National Observer Ethical Awards. Our year at Buglife that has been so full cray%sh. Aggregates sites have a work to save wildlife-rich sites from of exciting, new conservation work, role to play as isolated water-bodies the threat of destruction has continued, underpinned by organisational growth created where rocks or minerals and this year we celebrated Buglife and development. "anks to funding have been dug out of the ground playing a part in saving 15 sites to date. from Scottish Natural Heritage, we can become sanctuaries for rescued began new work this year in Scotland populations of the disappearing Raising awareness and increasing understanding of invertebrates is a to implement a Strategy for Scottish native cray%sh – these are called Ark vital element of Buglife’s work and this Invertebrate Conservation. We have Sites. "is work was supported by year we have been able to employ our also been joined by a new Conservation Natural England through Defra’s %rst Outreach O#cer. During 2009 we Assistant at our Stirling o#ce. Funding Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. have taken on six new sta& members, from the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, We have continued to work %ve of them into completely new posts. Essex Environment Trust, Tubney internationally during the year and Buglife’s achievements and progress Charitable Trust and Veolia ES have collaborated with partners in Sri in conserving invertebrates during Cleanaway Trusts has enabled Buglife Lanka to develop a project to conserve the year would not have been possible to begin an exciting new programme freshwater crabs and other invertebrates. without the support of our funders, of work. "is work is called ‘Stepping Sri Lanka is particularly important for members and donors, volunteers, and Stones for Wildlife’ and builds upon freshwater crabs - all 51 are the input and help of other conservation our previous work for the bene%t endemic to the country and some are bodies – particularly the experts in our of on brown%eld restricted to extremely small patches of 28 Member Organisations. "anks sites. Practical work on the ground, threatened habitat. Funding from the also to the Board of Trustees who have initially in south Essex, Peterborough Darwin Initiative enabled Buglife sta& led the charity during the year, and and Teesside will develop a network of to visit Sri Lanka in November 2009. to our dedicated and talented sta&. sites, or ‘Stepping Stones’ in each area, enabling threatened species to spread. Our 3-year %ght to try to save West "urrock Marshes for its rare During the year we worked with the invertebrates was acknowledged aggregates extraction industry to save during the year, when Buglife won the Alan Stubbs one of the UK’s largest freshwater prestigious Conservation Award in the Chairman

About Buglife

Buglife is the only organisation in Buglife’s aim is to stop the devoted to the conservation of of invertebrate species and to all invertebrates, and we are actively achieve sustainable populations working to save Britain’s rarest little of invertebrates. We are working animals, everything from bees to hard to achieve this by: , worms to woodlice and • Undertaking practical conservation jumping spiders to jelly#sh. There Small red damsel$y ( Ceriagrion projects that will contribute are more than 40,000 invertebrate tenellum) to achieving our aim. species in the UK and many of these, • Promoting the environmental as well as many international species, Invertebrates are facing importance of invertebrates and an extinction crisis raising awareness about the are under threat as never before. challenges to their survival. Today, thousands of invertebrate Invertebrates are vitally important • Assisting in the development of species are declining and many are to a healthy planet – humans and legislation and policy that will ensure heading towards extinction. World wide the conservation of invertebrates. other life forms could not survive 150,000 species could be gone by 2050 • Developing and disseminating without them. The food we eat, the if we do nothing. Each invertebrate #sh we catch, the birds we see, the knowledge about how to species plays a critically important conserve invertebrates. $owers we smell and the hum of role in the web of life. Once lost, they life we hear, simply would not exist • Encouraging and supporting cannot be replaced. Many invertebrates invertebrate conservation initiatives without bugs. Invertebrates underpin have incredible life stories yet to by other organisations in the life on earth and without them the be told, and we literally don’t know UK, Europe and worldwide. world’s ecosystems would collapse. what we are on the brink of losing.

3 Creating Stepping Stones for Wildlife

and the Brown-banded carder Canvey Wick, for the wildlife living bee ( Bombus humilis ). To date, the there. Canvey Wick is a site that Buglife Streaked bombardier and has a long history of involvement Distinguished jumping spider have with, having campaigned for its only ever been found on brown#eld protection when it was threatened with sites. The spider has only been found development in 2005. It is now a Site on two sites in the UK – both of them of Special Scienti#c Interest, protected threatened with development. primarily for its rare invertebrates.

During 2009 we began exciting new During the year we published ‘Planning work to protect the rare invertebrates for Brown#eld Biodiversity- a best that live on brown#eld sites. We practice guide’ which is aimed at were awarded funding to begin all those involved in planning and implementing new developments. The very rare Distinguished jumping a new project called ‘Stepping The report provides practical solutions spider Stones for Wildlife’, where we will work to conserve invertebrates on for sustainable reuse of brown#eld land. The report is available free to Brown#eld sites are areas of land that brown#eld sites in locations across download from the Buglife website. have previously been developed. Once the UK. We will be working in each abandoned by industry, nature can area to develop a network of sites, or reclaim these places and wildlife can ‘Stepping Stones’, which will enable thrive, undisturbed. It is often sites threatened species to spread into where noisy factories once stood or new areas. We are grateful to the where heavy machinery excavated Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Essex the ground, that are now refuges Environment Trust, Tubney Charitable for wildlife, #lled with $owers and Trust and Veolia ES Cleanaway plants. In our towns and cities, they Trusts for funding this new work. can be oases of green set amongst Work has already begun in south Essex buildings, roads and industrial areas. and funding has been secured for work Brown#eld sites, particularly those in Peterborough and Teesside. In Essex, found in the Thames Gateway, are we are building on our previous work home to some of our rarest and most to conserve threatened species in the threatened invertebrate species such Thames Gateway. We have carried Brown#eld sites can be beautiful as the Streaked bombardier beetle out detailed invertebrate surveys places - a Pyramidal orchid on (Brachinus sclopeta ), the Distinguished and begun to plan out practical work Canvey Wick jumping spider ( Sitticus distinguendus ) to improve #ve key sites, including

Buglife Out and About

We exhibited at a number of new events including Malvern Spring Gardening Show where we talked to visitors about gardening for bugs. At Gardeners’ World Live we made over a hundred Ladybird and Lacewing Lodges with visitors to the show. We even had a special mention from Cbeebies’ Jelly – puppet presenter of Green Balloon Club. Later in the Buglife’s Zoë Bunter chats with Jelly summer we attended the British The Buglife stand at Gardener’s at Gardener’s World 2009 Birdwatching Fair where we took the World Live 2009 award for Best Conservation Stand During the summer Buglife attended for the third year running. We were Nick helped out with ‘Bug TV’ – linking events across the UK to help spread the joined by Buglife Vice President, and a microscope to a laptop computer word about invertebrate conservation. TV Presenter, Nick Baker at this event. to display live bugs close up!

4 Buglife Scotland

the Strategy was to review the state in our work through a series of walks of knowledge on invertebrates in and talks. We have also worked Scotland. This review is ongoing and with the Garden for Life forum to is working out which invertebrate promote the importance of gardens groups are poorly studied, alongside as a habitat for bene#cial bugs. preparing a list of the most important invertebrates in Scotland. Workshops are now being organised to promote some of these under-studied groups. Developing greater knowledge and understanding underpins appropriate Scabious mining bee ( Andrena and e!ective conservation action. marginata) In December 2009 a Conservation Assistant was recruited. This o/cer It has been a busy year for Buglife in will be helping our existing Scottish Scotland. Following the launch of O/cer to take action to conserve a Strategy for Scottish Invertebrate species under threat in Scotland. Conservation in January 2009 we are The Narrow-headed wood ant now working with partners to begin We have continued to work with (Formica exsecta ) is a threatened the implementation of the strategy. Scottish Environment Link during the species found in Scotland One of the #rst tasks in implementing year and have got people involved

Fen Raft Spider Art

The Fen raft spider is a large and beautiful spider – females can reach up to 7cm across (including legs!). Fen raft spiders live in fens and other wetlands, and are now restricted to just three sites. Consequently, the spider is a priority species for conservation action under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan.

The female spiders are very caring mothers. After mating, the female builds an egg sac which she carries for approximately three weeks, Fen raft spider - one of Sheila dipping the egg sac in the water Tilmouth’s pieces every few hours to keep the eggs Fen raft spider ( Dolomedes moist. When it is time for the eggs plantarius ) with spiderlings In summer 2009 Buglife was involved to hatch the female builds a nursery in an exciting project to bring together web – a silken tent up to 25cm across an artist and one of the UK’s most which is suspended above the water spectacular invertebrates – the Fen and attached to plants. The mother raft spider ( Dolomedes plantarius ). spider will guard her nursery for the #rst week of the young spiders Artist Sheila Tilmouth spent the lives after which they will disperse summer up to her waist (and sometimes her armpits!) in pools of into the surrounding vegetation. water studying, photographing and This project was funded by the sketching the spiders at the Su!olk Arts Council, and supported by Wildlife Trust reserve at Redgrave and Su!olk Wildlife Trust, the British Lopham Fen. She spent the rest of Arachnological Society and Buglife. Sheila Tilmouth at work the summer in her studio producing some fantastic art which was exhibited at the Redgrave and Lopham Fen visitor centre during the Autumn.

5 Conserving the White-clawed cray!sh

This year Buglife began exciting new work to save the UK’s largest freshwater invertebrate – the White- clawed cray#sh – from extinction.

The White-clawed cray#sh (Austropotamobius pallipes ) is our only native cray#sh. It was once a common species in English rivers, but has su!ered severe declines. Many populations of White-clawed cray#sh have been lost already and most of those remaining in streams and rivers are at risk. The White-clawed cray#sh has been badly a!ected by a disease known as cray#sh plague that is transmitted by the larger, more aggressive, invasive American Signal cray#sh ( Pacifastacus leniusculus ).

Ark Sites for Cray!sh White-clawed cray#sh ( Austropotamobius pallipes ) Buglife has been working with the During the year Buglife published aggregates industry, the Environment ‘Ark Sites for White-clawed Cray#sh – Agency and other conservation White-clawed Guidance for the Aggregates Industry’ partners to take action to conserve – this is the #rst published guidance cray!sh fact!le the White-clawed cray#sh through to establishing Ark Sites for cray#sh creating ‘Ark Sites’. Ark Sites are conservation. We have also completed • The White-clawed cray#sh isolated ponds and lakes, where new a project which has identi#ed and (Austropotamobius pallipes ) is populations can be established. Here, mapped potential Ark Sites across a globally threatened species the White-clawed cray#sh are safe South West England. This work has which is a conservation from non-native cray#sh and disease. shown the potential of aggregates priority in Europe and the Aggregate and mineral extraction sites and minerals extraction sites as Ark UK, and has been identi#ed such as quarries and gravel pits can o!er Sites for cray#sh, and demonstrated as a UK Biodiversity Action excellent opportunities to safeguard how Ark Sites can be strategically Plan Priority Species. This White-clawed cray#sh populations. planned at a regional level. We means it has been o/cially Quarries often #ll with water when will continue to build on this work named as a species in need of operations #nish and these pools have in 2010 through establishing new urgent conservation action. enormous potential for all sorts of Ark Sites in South West England. wildlife, including providing homes • It is one of the UK’s largest This project is part of Buglife’s for White-clawed cray#sh. Setting up freshwater invertebrates and is ‘Bringing Aggregate Sites to Life’ Ark Sites is often straightforward and our only native cray#sh species. programme, and is supported by inexpensive, and with support from Adult White-clawed cray#sh Natural England through Defra’s aggregates and minerals operators can grow to over 12cm long. Aggregates Levy Sustainability Fund. we can help conserve the White- clawed cray#sh into the future. • The cray#sh can live for more than 10 years, and usually reach sexual maturity after three to four years.

• White-clawed cray#sh are omnivorous but the bulk of their diet is made up of other, smaller, invertebrates. They are food for larger animals such as otters.

• Their name refers to the undersides of their claws that are white or o!-white

6 Captive breeding success for rare beetle!

In 2009 Buglife successfully captive a handful of small sites. Adult Scarlet number of known sites for the beetle, bred the rare Scarlet malachite malachite beetles rely on unspoilt although only to a total of eight sites. beetle – a world’s #rst! wild$ower meadows but most of Buglife volunteers continue to monitor this habitat has been lost to modern these populations - their e!orts are The Scarlet malachite beetle ( Malachius agriculture and development. vital to the conservation of this species. aeneus ) is a beautiful metallic red and green beetle. Once widespread across Buglife has been working to conserve Appearing for only four weeks in southern England and south Wales it the Scarlet malachite beetle for some May and June, the adults mate and is now so rare that it is only found in years. Our surveys in 2004 doubled the then vanish without trace. Little is known about what the beetle needs in order to breed, and a successful captive breeding programme helps to identify possible ways to conserve this species in the wild. Graham Smith, the entomologist working with Buglife to breed the beetles, said “successfully breeding the Scarlet malachite beetle in captivity will enable Buglife to take forward the conservation work necessary to save this species.” This is an exciting #rst step but there are many more mysteries to solve about this enigmatic creature.

Our Scarlet malachite beetle conservation work is part funded by Natural England, we are grateful for The rare Scarlet malachite beetle ( Malachius aeneus ) the support of Buglife volunteers.

Conserving freshwater crabs in Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka boasts a huge variety and lakes, rivers and streams. Sri Lanka abundance of plants and animals, has 51 species of freshwater crabs – all particularly invertebrates – it is known of them endemic. This means that as a ‘global biodiversity hotspot’. they only live in Sri Lanka. A recent conservation assessment of 41 of these Buglife was contacted by the National species found that 30 are threatened Environment Forum of Sri Lanka to see with complete global extinction. whether we could work together for the conservation of freshwater crabs in Freshwater habitats in Sri Lanka are Sri Lanka. Unlike marine crabs, which a!ected by a number of problems Indika Karunarathna of the National are much more familiar to most people, including invasive alien species Environment Forum of Sri Lanka freshwater crabs live in and around and pesticides, which are regulated only for human safety. The removal with Buglife sta! Craig Macadam of vegetation on mountains and and Vicky Kindemba lower slopes for agriculture results in soil being washed into rivers for the conservation of aquatic and streams, which also makes the invertebrates in Sri Lanka, with a focus habitat unsuitable for the crabs. upon freshwater crabs. This visit also gave us the opportunity to see the In November 2009, two Buglife sta! threats faced by the endangered crabs members visited Sri Lanka to meet with at #rst hand. The trip was funded the National Environment Forum of by the UK Government’s Darwin Sri Lanka, the University of Peradeniya Initiative, and we are now working and Government o/cials to plan how with partners in Sri Lanka to develop Sri Lankan Freshwater crab we might work e!ectively together a full conservation project proposal.

7 Getting people involved!

In 2009 Buglife appointed its #rst Outreach O/cer to raise the pro#le of invertebrates and their conservation. We have been able to run a number of exciting and successful activities to get people involved in #nding out more about bugs.

The Buglife Spider Hunt At the end of September, Buglife asked the public to get involved in the #rst Bug Hotels can provide shelter for ever national spider hunt. We asked bugs in cold or wet weather people to search their homes and gardens for common types of spider The Snug as a Bug campaign such as House spiders ( Tegenaria sp. ), In Autumn 2009 we ran a national and Garden cross spiders ( Araneus campaign to get hundreds of people diadematus ), as well as a few rarer types. creating cosy homes for bugs in their Worm charming success at Over 460 people took part, recording gardens. We asked people to create Osbournby Primary School, Sleaford over 13,265 spiders. The Spider Hunt a Bug Hotel and #ll it with autumn was launched on the Radio 4 ‘Today’ leaves, providing a safe place for Worm Week programme and was widely covered bugs to shelter in over the winter. on TV, radio and in the press. In March Buglife ran ‘Worm Week’ to The campaign was mentioned live spread the word about wonderful on BBC Autumnwatch by presenter worms and their importance as Simon King. Over 270 people and nature’s great recyclers. Worm Week organisations (including hospitals, was launched at a Peterborough primary schools and prisons!) made primary school with an assembly and a Bug Hotels and will be dismantling morning of worm-charming and worm them in spring to see which bugs crafts for the reception children. Over ‘checked in’ over the winter. 200 schools across the UK registered to take part in Worm Week. We ran a schools Worm-Charming competition and a worm-themed poetry One spider spotter found a Bronze competition which was judged by Julia tubed web spider ( Segestria Donaldson - author of The Gru!alo. "orentina ) with amazing iridescent White-legged snake jaws ( niger )

Buglife wins Observer Ethical Award

The award is recognition of the on and other brown#eld sites where increasing acceptance that the endangered species live in the Thames conservation of bugs is an issue of Gateway are similarly imperiled. critical ethical importance; that our work to try to prevent the destruction of large areas of West Thurrock Marshes on behalf of bugs is at the cutting edge of biodiversity conservation. Of course it is also recognition of the work and commitment of Buglife’s sta!, trustees, legal team and Buglife has been awarded the supporters – well done everyone! Conservation Award in the National Observer Ethical Awards for our Shockingly, the Thurrock Development Matt Shardlow receiving the award ‘Fighting to Save West Thurrock Corporation has now given permission from Lucy Siegle and Colin Firth Marshes’ campaign. for West Thurrock Marshes to be built

8 Pollinator Protection

Human beings depend on pollination. Buglife’s review “The impact of Bees, hover$ies, beetles, moths and neonicotinoid insecticides on many other take from one bumblebees, Honey bees and other $ower to another and thereby fertilise non-target invertebrates” (Kindemba the plants. This creates seeds, fruits and 2009) is the #rst independent review of the next generation of plants. All the evidence about the potential impacts main groups of British pollinators are of neonicotinoids on pollinators. su!ering from declining populations We found several peer reviewed and very little is being done to stop research papers that show signi#cant these declines. Losing pollinators negative impacts of Imidacloprid will have a massive impact on food on bees and other non-target production and ecosystem health. invertebrates at levels predicted to Matt Shardlow presenting the report be present in the UK countryside. One theory is that modern insecticides to Number 10, Downing Street may be causing the declines. In 2009 Given the essential nature of Buglife undertook a major scienti#c toxins – Imidacloprid is the commonest pollination and the current precarious review of the evidence of impacts – are used in pot plants as well as arable state of these animals any additional of one of the most toxic groups of #elds. Due to concerns about impacts risk to their populations from pesticide pesticides - the neonicotinoids. These on Honeybees, neonicotinoids have use constitutes an unacceptable chemicals were introduced in the been banned to di!erent degrees in$uence on the environment. Buglife 1990s and are now very widely used. in a number of European countries. is now calling for a suspension of The potency of the neonicotinoids is However, the UK government has all existing outdoor approvals for incredible, tiny amounts applied to always maintained that there is no neonicotinoids until a formal review seeds will sterilise the surrounding soil evidence that neonicotinoids could of the environmental safety of of insects when the seed is planted. The cause damage to pollinator populations. these toxins can be completed.

Marine life to be saved

bed extraction and other damaging developments. A new body, the Marine Management Organisation will oversee the management of and a planning system for English seas and o!shore areas away from Scotland – Scotland will soon bring in its own Marine Act.

We hope that endangered marine invertebrates such as the Pink sea fan ( Eunicella verrucosa ), Sunset coral (Leptopsammia pruvoti ) and Flame shell ( Limaria hians ) now have a more rosy future. Indeed Buglife was successful in getting an amendment that ensured that invertebrate life Flame shells ( Limaria hians ) would be protected within the new zones. Buglife has been active in the wildlife as the main loser. The Marine drafting of a new set of laws that and Coastal Access Act 2009 aims to Buglife also worked with other should turn around the status of ensure that we get clean, healthy, safe, conservation charities through endangered marine life in Britain. productive and biologically rich oceans the umbrella body Wildlife and and seas. Government now has a Countryside Link to make sure that There are over 15,000 species of duty to establish a network of marine the draft bill was #t for purpose. While invertebrates in our seas - many wildlife sites (marine conservation we did not get everything we wanted, of them beautiful and spectacular zones) and has committed to make the Bill was signi#cantly strengthened animals. Decades of exploitation and sure that some of these are highly through the second longest House competition between sea users has left protected – i.e. safe from #shing, sea of Lords scrutiny period in history.

9 Working with anglers to conserve river$ies

River$ies are a group of $ies living as in need of urgent conservation in and around rivers and streams action. Together, the members of the which includes may$ies, stone$ies partnership are working to conserve and caddis$ies. River$ies are charismatic insects such as the Window under threat and have declined winged sedge ( Hagenella clathrata ) by 66% in recent years. and the Yellow may$y ( Potamanthus luteus ). Anglers are in an ideal position Buglife is a founder member of the to monitor these species on the River$y Partnership and currently chairs rivers and streams that they #sh, so the River$y Partnership’s ‘Species and the group is developing postcards Habitat’ group. This group is working featuring the eight species. These will on a project to conserve eight river$y allow anglers to identify the river$ies Yellow may$y adult ( Potamanthus species listed on the Biodiversity Action and contribute valuable records of luteus ) Plan – these are species o/cially named where and when they spotted them.

Watery homes for rare bugs

2009 was Buglife’s third and #nal This year’s highlights included #nding year of #eldwork to investigate the two rare species: the Norfolk Hawker value of grazing marsh ditches to dragon$y ( Aeshna isosceles ) and the rare invertebrates. Ditches provide a Large-mouthed valve snail ( Valvata home for a wide variety of plants and macrostoma ). Next steps are to analyse freshwater invertebrates, however the all the information we have gathered importance of this habitat for the wildlife during the three years of surveying living there is not well understood. – the species we have found and Buglife’s ‘Ecological Status of Grazing their abundance. This information Marsh Ditches’ project, funded by the will help us to better understand Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, aims to the importance of grazing marsh increase knowledge and understanding ditches for invertebrates, and how of this specialised habitat and provide they can be managed to conserve Martin Drake at work on Chetney advice on managing ditches for the rare and threatened species. Marsh, North Kent bene#t of the wildlife living there.

Aucheninnes is saved!

2009 brought the fantastic news that Back in 2003 the future of Aucheninnes Moss is saved! This site, a Aucheninnes Moss looked very bleak. classic peat bog with wet heath, is the Despite a high pro#le campaign by only Scottish home for Bog bush cricket Buglife and the local community, (Metrioptera brachyptera ) and Pygmy and a parliamentary motion signed sorrel moth ( Enteucha acetosae ) as well by 40 MSPs, the Scottish Executive had approved plans to turn the Bog as a whole host of other internationally bush cricket’s habitat into a land#ll threatened invertebrates including the site. Buglife, along with over 40 local Large heath butter$y ( Coenonympha residents and national invertebrate tullia ) and Small pearl-bordered experts, converged on Aucheninnes Protestors on Aucheninnes Moss fritillary ( Boloria selene ). Six years Moss to record for posterity the in 2003 after Dumfries and Galloway Council biological riches of the bog before granted permission to dig up the peat its destruction and to express their by Buglife and the Dalbeattie Waste bog and turn it into a land#ll site they disgust at plans to turn the wildlife Action Group has been instrumental decided to close the site completely. site into a land#ll site. Campaigning in saving this site for its rare wildlife.

10 Our !nances

Income Amount %

Restricted grants £372,412 68

Donations and legacies £107,242 20

Unrestricted grants £57,366 10

Bank interest £4,922 1

Other activities £4,473 1

Total £546,415 100

Expenditure Amount %

Charitable activities £522,633 97

Fundraising £13,791 2

Governance costs £3,146 1

Total £539,570 100

President: Vice-president: Germaine Greer Nick Baker

Alan Stubbs Matt Shardlow Vice-president: Vice-president: Chairman Chief Executive Steve Backshall Edward O Wilson

Photography Credits

Front Cover • Narrow-headed wood ant ( Formica exsecta ) • Observer ethical awards – Lucy Siegle, Matt • Common carder-bee ( Bombus pascuorum ) © Gus Jones Shardlow and Colin Firth © Observer © Jon Mold • Fen raft spider ( Dolomedes plantarius ) with spiderlings © MJ Clark Page 9 Page 2 • Neonicotinoid report presented at 10 • Thick-legged $ower beetle Page 6 Downing Street © Matt Shardlow ( nobilis ) © Peter Hayes • White-clawed cray#sh ( Austropotamobius • Flame shell ( Limaria hians ) © Goatchurch • Sir David Attenborough © Guy Levy pallipes ) photographs © John Mason Page 10 Page 3 Page 7 • Yellow may$y adult ( Potamanthus luteus ) • Small red damsel$y ( Ceriagrion tenellum ) • Scarlet Malachite Beetle ( Malachius aeneus ) © Mike Hammett © Jim Scott © Tristan Bantock • Martin Drake at Chetney Marsh, North Kent • Sri Lankan Freshwater crab © Craig Macadam Page 4 © Vicky Kindemba • National Environment Forum of Sri Lanka • Distinguished jumping spider • Aucheninnes Moss protestors © Paul Raeburn plus Buglife © Craig Macadam (Sitticus distinguendus ) © Peter Harvey Back Cover • Pyramidal orchid ( Anacamptis pyramidalis ) Page 8 • Green tiger beetle ( Cicindela campestris ) © Claudia Watts • Bronze tubed web spider ( Segestria © Greg Hitchcock "orentina ) © Luis Miguel Bugallo Sanchez Page 5 • Long clawed porcelain crab • Children of Osbournby Primary School, • Scabious Mining Bee ( Andrena marginata ) (Pisidia longicornis ) © Matt Shardlow Sleaford © Karen Stearn © The Badenoch and Strathspey • Dingy skipper butter$y ( Erynnis tages ) • White-legged snake millipede Conservation Group © Greg Hitchcock (Tachypodoiulus niger ) © Matt Shardlow

11 Front Cover Common carder-bee (Bombus pascuorum )

Back Cover (top to bottom) Green tiger beetle (Cicindela campestris ) Long clawed porcelain crab (Pisidia longicornis ) Dingy skipper butter$y (Erynnis tages )

Contact Details

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