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Buglife Achievements
A summary of the key achievements from 2000 to present day.
| December 2000 | The Invertebrate Conservation Trust registered as a company. |
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| February 2002 | First staff employed. |
| May 2002 | Name changed to Buglife – The Invertebrate Conservation Trust. |
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| May 2003 | Canvey Wick full page article on Page 3 of the Guardian. |
| July 2003 | Buglife raises alarm that the Ragwort Bill aims to eradicate Ragwort – the exclusive home of 30 bug species. |
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| April 2004 | Official launch of Buglife. |
| May 2004 | Managing Priority Habitats for Invertebrates CD released. |
| July 2004 | 31% of MSPs sign up to Buglife’s motion asking for Aucheninnes Moss to be saved from destruction. |
| July 2004 | Ragwort Code produced containing bug friendly measures. |
| November 2004 | First four leaflets produced in celebrated invertebrate taxa series. |
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| February 2005 | Canvey Wick designated as an SSSI. |
| March 2005 | Wording inserted in draft Clean Neighbourhoods Act to ensure that insects in the countryside are safe from being declared a public nuisance. |
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| February 2006 | Sale of Cypermethrin for use as a sheep dip suspended. |
| May 2006 | Membership reaches 500. |
| June 2006 | Scarlet malachite beetle on front cover of Independent newspaper. |
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| January 2007 | Buglife meet Prime Minister Blair as part of campaign to save West Thurrock Marshes. |
| February 2007 | Buglife establishes office and officer in Scotland. |
| June 2007 | New UKBAP Priority list produced including 431 invertebrate species and ‘Open Mosaic Habitats on Previously Developed Land’. |
| June 2007 | Over 500 people trained to identify bumblebees at workshops in Essex and London. |
| September 2007 | ‘Managing Coastal Soft Cliffs for Invertebrates’ project completed, 10,400 new records invertebrates generated. |
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| February 2008 | Buglife takes protection of biodiversity on West Thurrock Marshes to the High Court, but application to revoke planning permission is dismissed. |
| March 2008 | Bringing Aggregates Sites to Life – best practice habitat management guide produced. |
| March 2008 | All of a Buzz in the Thames Gateway project completes mapping of 576 brownfield sites in London and the Thames Gateway 55% of area shown to have high biodiversity potential. |
| June 2009 | Buglife warded the Conservation Award in the National Observer Ethical Awards for our ‘Fighting to Save West Thurrock Marshes’ campaign. |
| September 2009 | Buglife presents a report on ‘The impact of neonicotinoid insecticides on bumblebees, Honey bees and other non-target invertebrates’ to Number 10, Downing Street |
| December 2009 | After a long campaign (started in 2003) Aucheninnes Moss has been saved from being turned into a landfill site. |
| December 2009 | First ever successful captive bred Scarlet malachite beetle. |
| December 2009 | Planning for Brownfield Biodiversity report produced. |
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| March 2010 | Wildlife destroying sheep dip (Cypermethrin) finally withdrawn. |
| October 2010 | Habitat creation and management on brownfield sites in Northern England begins. |
| November 2010 | Translocation of threatened White-clawed crayfish to save havens (Ark-sites). |
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| March 2011 | Buglife complete a project on 'The ecological status of ditch systems'. Surveying over five hundred ditches in the most important coastal grazing marsh areas of Wales and England. |
| March 2011 | 'A Review of the Impact of Artificial Light on Invertebrates' report produced. |
| May 2011 | Buglife launched the 'Get Britain Buzzing' campaign. Aiming to get people to take action to help conserve pollinators. |
| June 2011 | Buglife and Living Roofs have constructed five 'brown roofs' on buildings across London. |
