Protect butterflies: Choose the butterfly of the year!

Protect butterflies: Choose the butterfly of the year!

Austria calls for a big butterfly voting! In an exciting campaign that puts biodiversity in the foreground, all nature lovers can choose their favorite butterfly from ten most -fed tag folds by March 10, 2025. This initiative pursues the goal of underline the immense importance of the butterflies for our ecosystem, as Christa Lackner and Matthias Wobornik emphasize from "Nature in the Garden". According to them, both the caterpillars and the adult moths are essential components of the food cycle for birds and other animals, in addition they play a key role than flower pollinators for many plants.

The action is not only informative, but is also supported by the butterfly app, which has documented almost a million observations from butterflies since its introduction in 2016. This citizen participation promotes research and the protection of species and emphasizes the importance of active participation in the recording of domestic moths. Ronald Würflinger, Secretary General of Blooming Austria, praises the app as an outstanding European showcase project. Users can simply report butterfly observations and upload images to a gallery within seconds that are valuable for community and research. Since the start, around 27,000 users have registered 130,000 moths and set up a huge picture gallery with over one million "likes", as the success of the app showed, reported blooming Austria.

competition and incentives for participants

In order to increase motivation to participate in the voting, attractive prices are raffled under all coordinating, including 25 garden specialist books and five shopping vouchers. This is part of the cooperation between blooming Austria and "nature in the garden", which are committed to a species -rich and diverse nature. The initiators call all citizens: inside to give their voice for the butterfly of the year and thus actively contribute to the protection of biodiversity. The voting contributes to the creation of greater consciousness for the importance of these fascinating living things, which, however, often act in the background.