Lotis Blue Butterfly Recovery Plan - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Lotis Blue Butterfly Recovery Plan - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Lotis Blue Butterfly Recovery Plan - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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delisting. The restricted current range of the lotis blue butterfly<br />
suggests that extinction may always be a threat.<br />
At present, recovery actions for the lotis blue butterfly must contend<br />
with three major problems: 1) the butterfly's extremely 1 imited<br />
distribution <strong>and</strong> low abundance, 2) inadequate knowledge of its<br />
autecology, <strong>and</strong> 3) an incomplete underst<strong>and</strong>ing of factors that led to<br />
its decline. These problems make the butterfly vulnerable to<br />
extinction through chavce environmental events despite timely<br />
implementation of recovery <strong>and</strong> management activities. This recovery<br />
plan emphasizes protection of the ohly known habitat in conjunction<br />
with basic ecological research designed to improve our underst<strong>and</strong>ing<br />
of the population biology <strong>and</strong> habitat requirements of the lotis blue<br />
butterfly.
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