Butterfly behaviour shows ways to protect natural habitats in a rapidly changing world

Natural landscapes are continually transformed to make room for agricultural and urban developments – often at the expense of important habitats and species.

That’s why, to avoid unnecessary species extinctions, it’s crucial to know which habitats to protect. In a recent paper we studied how changes to the landscape affected butterflies in a grassland area of South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province.

The sheer speed at which landscapes are being transformed by human activity…

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