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‘This isn’t greenwashing’: thousands of butterflies surprise experts on restored West Sussex farmland

Rare small blues and dingy skippers among species found on former wheatfields two years after start of transformation under commercial nature project An “amazing” abundance of 5,290 butterflies, including rare small blues and dingy skippers, has appeared on land that was barren…

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