The threatened Wood White butterfly survives in its last stronghold in South-East England in the sunny woodland rides and glades of the West Weald on the Surrey & Sussex border, centred on Chiddingfold Forest. By working with landowners and local communities we have slowed its decline but we now need to create new habitat for the butterfly to recover its population at a landscape scale, recolonise former sites and find new areas where it can thrive in our changing climate.

We will apply our evidence-based conservation approach to restore and create areas of wildflower-rich grassland across the Wood White’s habitat network in the West Weald. Working with local communities we will combine expert advice with volunteer activism to create open spaces in woodlands and flower-rich areas in parks, churchyards and road-verges suitable for the Wood White, improving connectivity for wildlife across the landscape.