On this page you can find reports and articles created by BCE or that are related to butterfly conservation and are considered important.
Basics of European Butterflies
Management for butterflies
- Dos and Don'ts for butterflies of the Habitats Directive of the European Union. (24.83 MB 
) Van Swaay et al., 2012
The updated EU Grassland Butterfly Indicator 1990-2020 is the combined population trend of 17 selected grassland species monitored across Europe for a long period of time. The indicator has been calculated from population trends estimated for the whole European region and restricted to the 27 EU Member States. In the last ten years, the indicator shows a linear decline of 32% in the EU27 and 36% in Europe up to 2020 with the last update of the eBMS database.
EU Grassland Butterfly Indicator 1990-2020 (2.01 MB )
EU Grassland Butterfly Indicator 1990-2017
The following were all produced during the European project ABLE between 2018-2020.
There are many different Butterfly Monitoring Schemes in Europe that generate frequently, in some cases annually, reports on the data collected on their BMS. Here you can find some of the reports produced recently:
Annual BMS ReportsDiscover the Butterfly Conservation Europe (BCE) Newsletter to be updated on recent news related to butterfly conservation, policy, monitoring and science.
BCE NewslettersDiscover the different Newsletters produced on the European Butterfly Monitoring Scheme updating the news of new partners, new tools and functions to monitor butterflies and more:
eBMS Newsletters