Zoo repopulating one of UK's rarest butterflies
Dartmoor Zoo hopes to repopulate rare black-veined white butterflies in the UK.
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"We have done an awful lot of damage to UK wildlife and biodiversity, and bringing one single butterfly back is just as important as reintroducing pine martens, lynx or even wolves and brown bears."
— Dr David Gibson , Executive
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Dartmoor Zoo hopes to repopulate rare black-veined white butterflies in the UK.
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