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

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Structure

Buglife's head office is in

Peterborough Peterborough () is a cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, east of England. It is the largest part of the City of Peterborough unitary authority district (which covers a larger area than Peterborough itself). It was part of Northamptonshire until ...

, England; with additional offices in

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and the

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. 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 Invertebrates are a paraphyletic group of animals that neither possess nor develop a vertebral column (commonly known as a ''backbone'' or ''spine''), derived from the notochord. This is a grouping including all animals apart from the chordate ...

extinctions and to maintain sustainable populations of invertebrates in the

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and beyond.

Operation

Activities undertaken by Buglife fall into the following areas: * Undertaking and promoting study and research * Promoting

habitat management Habitat conservation is a management practice that seeks to conserve, protect and restore habitats and prevent species extinction, fragmentation or reduction in range. It is a priority of many groups that cannot be easily characterized in term ...

aimed at maintaining and enhancing invertebrate

biodiversity Biodiversity or biological diversity is the variety and variability of life on Earth. Biodiversity is a measure of variation at the genetic (''genetic variability''), species (''species diversity''), and ecosystem (''ecosystem diversity'') l ...

* Publicising invertebrates

History

In September 2011, Buglife contributed to

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's ''Saving Species'' programme. In 2015, Buglife campaigned successfully to stop a building development which had threatened the critically endangered species ''

Nothophantes horridus ''Nothophantes'', the horrid ground-weaver, is a critically endangered monotypic genus of European dwarf spiders containing the single species, ''Nothophantes horridus''. It was first described by P. Merrett & R. A. Stevens in 1995, and has on ...

'' (also known as the Horrid ground-weaver).

References

External links

* * 2002 establishments in the United Kingdom Charities based in England Conservation in the United Kingdom Entomological organizations Environmental organisations based in the United Kingdom Organisations based in Peterborough Organizations established in 2002 {{UK-org-stub