Butterfly Conservation in North America: Efforts to Help Save Our Charismatic Microfauna

Butterfly Recovery Planning: Determining How to Contribute - Jaret C. Daniels, Mitch Magdich and Peter Tolson



The Role of AZA-Accredited Zoos and Aquariums in Butterfly Conservation - Shelly Grow, Ruth Allard and Debborah Luke



Butterfly Monitoring for Conservation - Doug Taron and Leslie Reis



Developing a Rare Butterfly Database for Conservation Purposes: An Example in Florida Using Citizen Scientists - Dean Jue

Butterfly Conservation Genetics - Emily Saarinen

Managing Land for Butterflies - Doug Taron



The Imperiled Mardon Skipper Butterfly: An Initial

Conservation Success - Rich Hatfield, Scott Hoffman Black and Sarina Jepsen



Habitat Restoration as a Recovery Tool for a Disturbance-dependent Butterfly, The Endangered

St. Francis' Satyr - Heather Clayton, Nick M. Haddad, Brian Ball, Erica Henry and Erik Aschehong

Butterflies are Not Grizzly Bears: Lepidoptera Conservation in Practice in California - Travis Longcore and Kendall H. Osborne

Jaret C. Daniels, Ph.D.                                                                 Assistant Director of Exhibits and Public Programs                         Assistant Curator of Lepidoptera                                               IFAS Assistant Professor of Entomology at Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida.

For a bit of background, the proposed book was born out of a larger conservation program I have been running called Imperiled Butterfly Conservation and Management. The proposed book serves as a detailed and augmented proceeding of the 3-year program.

Imperiled Butterfly Conservation and Management (IBCM) is an intensive cross-training program designed to strengthen the capacity of institutions and their staff to play a strategic role in the emergent and increasingly important field of insect conservation biology, with a targeted focus on imperiled butterfly recovery.

Zoos, natural history museums, botanical gardens and state and federal wildlife agencies are progressively focusing on insects, particularly charismatic groups such as butterflies and pollinators, to help advance local conservation efforts and foster increased environmental stewardship, science literacy and community engagement. However, insufficient experience and familiarity with insects prevent staff and institutions from adequately planning, implementing and evaluating conservation activities. The three-year IBCM program directly addresses this critical gap by focusing on institutional and staff development.

The program was led by the Florida Museum of Natural History's McGuire Center for Lepidoptera and Biodiversity at the University of Florida and the Butterfly Conservation Initiative. IBCM is a broad partnership that also involves the Chicago Academy of Sciences' Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum; the Oregon Zoo in Portland, OR; the Toledo Zoo in Toledo, Ohio; Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden in Miami, FL; the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)