Recent meetings
| Date | Commissioner / Cabinet | Topic | File |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 Mar 2020 | Lukas Visek Cabinet member | Green Deal | — |
| 13 Mar 2020 | Lukas Visek Cabinet member | Green Deal | SRC |
Mission & Goals
Butterfly Conservation Europe aims to prevent the extinction of any species of butterfly and moth, especially in Europe, and promote all activities and initiatives to conserve and restore butterflies, moths and their habitats in Europe and to contribute to reversing the decline in insect pollinators.
EU Legislative Interests
Nature Conservation; Environment, Climate Change; Biodiversity, Butterfly Conservation; EU Nature Restoration Regulation and Delegated Act; EU Pollinators Initiative; EU Habitats Directive, Natura 2000; EU Biodiversity Strategy; Common Agricultural Policy; Research and Innovation; EU Budget.
Communication Activities
Natura 2000 Biogeographic Region Seminar in 2022 re EU Pledges and Butterflies Link: https://www.vlinderstichting.nl/butterfly-conservation-europe/eu-policy-and-butterflies/eu-biodiversity-strategy-2030-targets/target-and-pledges European Grassland Butterfly Indicator 1991-2024: Technical Report, published January 2026 Link to webpage: https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=butterfly-monitoring Link directly to report: https://www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69846865d3f48.pdf Habitat management for Butterflies: Bending the curve of the Grassland Butterfly Index: Document published March 2026 Link to webpage: https://www.bc-europe.eu/webpage.php?name=bending-the-curve-gbi Link directly to document: https://www.bc-europe.eu/documents/69afea022d87b.pdf https://butterfly-monitoring.net/welcome https://www.vlinderstichting.nl/butterfly-conservation-europe/news-events/blog
Interests Represented
Promotes their own interests or the collective interests of their members
Member Of
European Habitats Forum (EHF) European Butterfly Monitoring Network
Organisation Members
Snow and Mountain Research Centre of Andorra(1), Austrian Society for Entomofaunistics (Österreichische Gesellschaft fü(1), Belarussian Entomological Society(1), Butterfly Working Group of Natuurpunt(1), Wallonie OFFS(1), National Museum of Natural History, Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Scienc(1), Croatian Natural History Museum(1), Biological Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences(1), Danish Entomological Society(1), Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences, University of Tartu, Estonia(1), Finnish Lepidopterological Society(1), National Museum of Natural History, Paris(1), Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ(1), Bavarian Academy for Nature and Landscape Conservation (ANL)(1), Hungarian Society of Lepidopterology(1), The Dublin Naturalists' Field Club(1), Laboratory of Zoology of Dep of Animal and Human Biology of Turin Univ(1), Associazione di Promozione Sociale "Polyxena"(1), Manx Butterfly Conservation(1), Lithuanian Entomological Society(1), Lithuanian Entomological Society*, Vilnius Pedagogical University(1), Association for Butterfly Conservation (Towarzystwo Ochrony Motyli -TO(1), Natural History Museum Luxembourg(1), Butterfly Study Group (BSG)(1), Dutch Butterfly Conservation / De Vlinderstichting(1), Norsk entomologisk forening (Norwegian Entomological Society).(1), Tagis Portugal(1), Focal Centre for Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation(1), Romanian Lepidopterological Society (RLS)(1), Yaroslavl Architectural Historical and Art Museum Preserve(1), Moscow Centre of Ecology and Biology(1), Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology, Ural Division of Russian Academ(1), Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences(1), NGO Peresvet(1), Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning. Serbia(1), HabiProt (Association for sustainable development and habitat protecti(1), Institute of Landscape Ecology, Slovak Academy of Sciences(1), Society for the Conservation and Study of Lepidoptera in Slovenia(1), Association ZERYNTHIA (Asociación Española para la Protección de las(1), Catalonia Butterfly Monitoring Scheme(1), Department of Natural Sciences, University of Gävle(1), Swiss Butterfly Conservation(1), Doga Koruma Merkezi (DKM)(1), Butterfly Conservation (UK)(1) OPIE (France) (1) For more information see www.bc-europe.eu
Additional Information
BCE was a sub contractor to UFZ to support delivery of EU Parliamentary Preparatory Action Project "Supporting recovery of Pollinators through Indicators and Monitoring" (SPRING). From mid 2021 to end Jan 2024