Awards

Marsh Lepidoptera Awards

Run in association with Butterfly Conservation, there are two Awards, run since 1999, as follows:-

Outstanding contributions to the promotion of lepidoptera conservation by either an individual or organisation.

A lifetime achievement award, recognising an individual for exceptional commitment to lepidoptera conservation.


The 2009 winner is Mike McCarthy (promotional) and Dr John Langmaid (lifetime)

Mike has always had a passion for butterflies and this year persuaded his editor to run a regular series on butterflies through the summer, under a project known as the Great British Butterfly Hunt. This project entails Mike travelling the country to see every British species, and writing up his findings in regular features in the paper. But this is not purely a cosmetic exercise to show pretty pictures, because Mike is using the articles to highlight the decline of butterflies and show how each species is being affected by human activities such as farming, forestry and man-induced climate change.
Mike is a passionate and knowledgeable conservationist, who uses his position to promote conservation issues for Lepidoptera and other wildlife. He recently wrote a wonderful book entitled “Say goodbye to the Cuckoo” highlighting the plight of woodland birds. He is now doing the same for butterflies.

Dr John Langmaid, a retired general medical practitioner, is one of the UK’s leading amateur Lepidopterists, is well respected by European colleagues, and has a particular interest in the British microlepidoptera fauna and their life histories. He was joint editor (with a past Marsh Award recipient, the late A. Maitland Emmet) of Volume 4 of The Moths and Butterflies of Great Britain and Ireland (MBGBI), and was an associate editor of Volume 3. He was also co-author of the Oecophoridae (in Vol. 4(1)), Coleophoridae (Vol. 3) and for much of the Gelechiidae (in Vol. 4(2)). In this work he has been exceptionally accurate, painstaking and professional, setting a new higher standard for others to follow.

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Previous Winners:

2008 - St Modwen Properties (Promotion) & Alan Stubbs (Lifetime)

2007 - Matthew Oates (Lifetime) & Clive Farrell (Promotion)

2006 - Roger Dennis (Lifetime Achievement) & Network Rail (Promotion of Lepidoptera Conservation)

2005 - Barry Goater (Lifetime) & Defence Estates (Promotion)

2004 - Paul Harding (Lifetime) & Kingcombe Centre (Promotion)

2003 - Roger Smith (Lifetime) & Bentley Wood Trustees (Promotion)

2002 - Dr Jeremy Thomas (Lifetime) & RSPB (Promotion)

2001 - Dame Miriam Rothschild (Lifetime) & Forest Enterprise (Promotion)

2000 - Dr Ernest Pollard (Lifetime) & Richard Lewington (Promotion)

1999 - Col Maitland Emmett (Lifetime) & The National Trust (Promotion)