Butterflies catch the heart and imagination of nearly everyone from baby to adult.  But everyone, baby to adult, needs a place to live, roads to travel, stores for food, fields for crops, and schools for education, hospitals, and an incredible number of other items necessary for life.

As we build roads, houses, stores, and more, we are destroying butterfly habitat.  None of us are willing to live in tents rather than clear another acre of land!

The good news is simple; butterfly habitat can be replaced and restored. 

Simply adding butterfly host plants to our yards and gardens is a step toward conservation.  Encouraging others to do so is an additional step we can all take.

We can reach beyond our own yards to encourage our towns, counties, and states to add butterfly host plants to town, county, and state property.  From landfills to roadsides, from city gardens to city landscaping, host plants add butterflies back into nature.

Beyond these first few steps, conservation also entails protecting protected and endangered butterflies.  Conservation and research can walk hand-in-hand down this road.  Studies can reveal reasons butterflies become scarce. 

Concerned people can prevent damage and even reverse damage to habitat.  Learn what you can do for butterfly conservation.

Rainforests and other forests are cut by local families who need the money for food and other necessities of life.  These families are not worried about the rainforest or a butterfly when their children are hungry.  Conservation can be as simple/complex as offering an alternative method of income to these families. 

The Association for Butterflies takes conservation seriously.  We have committed10 to 25 percent of the association’s *income to conservation.   Join the Association for Butterflies to help support butterfly conservation.