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Butterfly Conservation ‘European Interests Group’ formedButterfly Conservation has
recognised for some time that a pan European butterfly conservation organisation
was needed and was instrumental in setting up Butterfly Conservation Europe (BC
Europe). To some extent the
decisions to set up BC Europe arose out of the widening interest of our
membership in European butterflies and moths.
However BC Europe is not a membership organisation.
BC's members can make a considerable contribution here and recent
bilateral initiatives such as the BC Europe and West Midlands Branch trip
to Hungary and recording by members in the Ecrins National Park are already
starting. In order to coordinate
and promote these activities BC is setting up a European Interests Group (EIG),
similar in structure to a BC branch, to provide a member based organisation
within BC. This was first announced
at the BC AGM in November 2006. This European Interests Group will publish a
newsletter, organise activities and trips, provide identification training,
contribute to the BC Europe website, etc. Membership
of this European Interests Group is open to any BC member for the additional fee
of £10 which will finance the group in the same way as similar subscriptions go
to branches. The £10 will be taken
on the next subscription renewal date. To make
administration much easier and cheaper a direct debit mandate is required for UK
members. Non UK members will pay by
credit card. Members will need an
email address as all correspondence, newsletters, etc. will only be sent by email
in order to minimize costs and simplify administration. The mandate of the BC European Interests Group will
be to:-
A small steering committee has been formed with Simon Spencer as chairman, Mike Williams as vice chairman, Neil Thompson, Ian Duncan and Tony Simpson (Moth Officer), Nigel Spring and Nigel Charles. This group would like to hear from anyone interested in helping to get the European Interests Group up and running - please email info@bc-eig.org.uk.
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