Buglife
Actively working to save the UK's rarest little animals; everything from bees to beetles through to worms and woodlice.In February 2002 the Invertebrate Conservation Trust employed its first staff member, Matt Shardlow.Home to at least 1500 species of invertebrate, including at least 30 on the UK ‘red list’ of endangered species, after decades of proposed industrial development, Buglife and Canvey Island residents commenced a three year campaign to save the site from the latest business park development threat.In addition to this the sale of Cypermethrin, for use as a sheep dip, was suspended following a long Buglife campaign and following pressure from Buglife wording was inserted in draft Clean Neighbourhoods Act to ensure that insects in the countryside were safe from being declared a public nuisance.[1] In 2015, Buglife campaigned successfully to stop a building development which had threatened the critically endangered species Nothophantes horridus (also known as the Horrid ground-weaver).