New home
Thirty-seven juvenile white storks were released at the Knepp Estate, West Sussex, in August, after being hatched at Cotswold Wildlife Park and Gardens and Kent’s Wildwood Trust earlier in the summer. The White Stork Project aims to restore a population of at least 50 breeding pairs in southern England by 2030 through a phased release programme.
Butterfly blues
The migratory monarch butterfly, famous for its epic journeys across the United States to overwintering grounds in California and Mexico, has been listed by the IUCN as endangered for the first time. The butterfly has declined by somewhere between 22 and 72 percent over the past decade, at least in part a consequence of logging and deforestation.