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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Patrick Barkham

Secret site of chequered skipper butterfly’s English revival revealed

A chequered skipper butterfly
‘So fast and sneaky’: a chequered skipper butterfly. Photograph: Andrew Cooper/PA

Nature lovers will be able to enjoy the high-speed flight of the chequered skipper butterfly in an English woodland for the first time in more than 45 years this summer.

Such is the success of a four-year reintroduction programme to return the rare insect to the woods of Northamptonshire, where it fell extinct in 1977, that its secret site can be revealed to the public.

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