Marsh European Lepidoptera Award | |
This Award was presented for the first time in 2009, and aims to recognise the efforts of those whose work has had a major and positive impact on butterfly and moth conservation within Europe. | |
The 2009 winner is Dr Otakar KudrnaDr Otakar Kudrna has dedicated his life to butterflies. He escaped from communist Czechoslovakia to the UK to become Europe’s foremost authority on butterfly taxonomy publishing many papers, particularly a monograph on the genus Hipparchia. Most significantly, he founded Societas Europaea Lepidopterologica and the Mapping European Butterflies program (MEB). His ‘The Distribution Atlas of European Butterflies’, (2002), is based on the observations of collaborators all over Europe. This work is currently being used to investigate the effect of climate change and habitat loss as it provides a baseline from which changes in range can be compared. Email: |
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