Extinction is a UK environmental issue along with being an issue in the rest of the world but the reappearance of a once extinct moth should raise hopes that anything is possible. The moth became a UK environmental issue when it disappeared in the country shortly before World War II. In the late 1990s it reappeared, having moved over from Europe to sites filled with food.
It primarily breeds and settles in abandoned quarries and along roadside depressions and ditches that are rich with the food it eats. The moth’s sites are threatened by possible new construction in those areas, although the government doesn’t seem terribly concerned with this UK environmental law. Perhaps they shouldn’t be when you consider that the moth thrives elsewhere in Europe and around the world. Butterfly Conservation continues to raise awareness about the issue and lobby the government in hopes of saving the moths.