A wildlife trust has found Wimmera reserves, in Victoria's west, is home to Australia's largest population of Eltham copper butterflies.
abc.net.au/news/largest-home-endangered-butterfly-in-wimmera/101868240A wildlife trust has found the Wimmera, in Victoria's west, is home to Australia's largest population of a tiny but critically endangered butterfly.A not-for-profit wildlife trust has found the Wimmera is home to Australia's largest population of a tiny, critically endangered butterfly
She says the butterflies are especially vulnerable to threats because they rely on a single plant for food and a single ant species for protection "Eltham copper butterfly numbers at the two very small known populations in the Wimmera were at much higher densities than in north central Victoria where we had been searching."
Besides Melbourne, they were also found in north central Victoria in 2001 but population numbers remained low because their habitats had become quite small because of urban subdivision and land clearing.
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