Long-term BW contributor Paul Waring reflects on losses, gains and remarkable stories from the last 35 years of change in British and Irish moths.
In 1989, Andrew Branson (founder of British Wildlife) visited the Nature Conservancy Council (NCC) to sound out potential contributors for a new wildlife and conservation journal which he was planning to launch. He asked me, as the Moth Specialist in the Terrestrial Invertebrate Conservation Branch, if I would be interested in writing a regular column on moth news, and I leapt at the opportunity.