Captions for photographs to accompany graphic and story GN16293 --UKÕs decreasing species diversity 

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GN16294 -- Picture shows the wood white (Leptidea sinapis), a specialist butterfly of woodlands and has declined severely since the 1970s. MUST CREDIT Martin Warren/Butterfly Conservation.
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GN16295 -- Picture shows the pearl-bordered fritillary (Boloria euphrosyne). This butterfly has been lost from many woodlands across southern England since the 1970s. Its remaining strongholds are open woodlands in western Scotland and the bracken-covered slopes of Dartmoor. MUST CREDIT Robert Thompson/Butterfly Conservation.
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GN16296 -- Picture shows the lapwing (Vanellus vanellus), localized extinctions between 1968-1972 and 1988-1991 were mostly in Ireland and Western Britain. MUST CREDIT George Higginbotham/BTO.
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GN16297 -- Picture shows the comma (Polygonia c-album). This butterfly has increased its range, sweeping northwards since the 1970s to colonize the whole of central and northern England. It is now recorded regularly in southern Scotland. Climate change is almost certainly the cause of this range expansion. MUST CREDIT Robert Thompson/Butterfly Conservation.
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