Butterfly Festival To Be Held At How Hill

Discussion about butterflies which are found on the Norfolk Broads.

Anglia TV reporter Chris Young meets Ivan West of the British Butterfly Conservation Society who has organised a Butterfly Festival at How Hill environmental study centre on the Norfolk Broads. Butterflies seen in the gardens include the rare swallowtail, white admiral, comma and small tortoiseshell. Ivan West mentions the butterflies’ importance as pollinators, and as signs that all is well in the countryside, with loss of butterflies perhaps indicating over-intensive land management, farming and chemical spraying. In some parts of the UK the butterflies are struggling, but with the growth of interest in conservation, organisations like the RSPB on their reserves are paying particular attention to butterfly habitats. This short video was made to be shown in a news story on Anglia Television early evening news / magazine programme About Anglia.

Keywords

Butterflies; Butterflies Norfolk How Hill Ivan West

Additional Description

The following information is from the How Hill Trust's website at www.how-hill.org.uk: How Hill House, situated in the heart of the Norfolk Broads, was built in 1904 by the architect Edward Thomas Boardman as his family's holiday home. The house became a study centre in 1967, but ever since 1984 it has been managed by an independent charitable trust which ensures that the property is cherished. The house is surrounded by delightful Edwardian gardens, but there is also a quite separate woodland garden featuring a magnificent springtime display of azaleas. The How Hill windows look out over a 365 acre estate, which is a most attractive and unique Broadland landscape, including reed beds, meadows, a small broad, woodlands, a reach of the River Ant, a marshman’s cottage, and restored windmills.