Buglife International

Our international work includes working with conservation partners across the world to support them to produce their own Important Invertebrate Areas (IIA), B-Lines networks, and species recovery projects to guide their nature recovery ambitions. We aim to build capacity in like-minded organisations, so they are better able to address the biodiversity crisis.

On the UK Overseas Territories, our ‘Supporting Atlantic Territories Invertebrate Conservation’ project, is working with local partners in Bermuda, the Falkland Islands, Anguilla, and Ascension to better understand their special endemic species and map IIAs and conservation priorities.

In Europe, we are contributing to the delivery of Species Action Plans to help vital pollinator populations recover. And we are a voice for invertebrates, advocating collaboratively through the European Habitats Forum.

Around the world, Buglife is helping to highlight the impacts of light pollution on invertebrates and other wildlife, forging new partnerships with Dark Skies International. We also support the important work of IUCN in species conservation.

In the past, Buglife has also worked with diverse partners overseas including in South Georgia, Sri Lanka, St Helena and Tanzania.

Buglife International’s achievements include:

• Secured funding for the ‘Supporting Atlantic Territories Invertebrate Conservation’ to map Important Invertebrates Areas on four UK Overseas Territories
• Helped ensure commitments to map ‘Buzz Lines’ and Key Pollinator Areas in the European Commission’s ‘A New Deal for Pollinators’
• ‘Bugs on the Brink’ project in St Helena helped to secure the future of its 460 endemic invertebrates.
• Campaigning for a European-wide ban on the use of neonicotinoid pesticides