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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">IUCN Butterfly Specialist Group launches new website</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Butterfly Specialist Group has just launched a new website at <a href="http://www.butterflyspecialistgroup.org/"><span style="color:blue">http://www.butterflyspecialistgroup.org/</span></a> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">The goal of the new site is to provide links to butterfly conservation information and resources. If you have reports or links to new research papers that you think would be of interest to butterfly conservation scientists and practitioners please send them to <a href="mailto:alexandra@xerces.org"><span style="color:blue">alexandra@xerces.org</span></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Thanks so much for your interest and work on butterfly conservation.</p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal">Best </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Scott Hoffman Black</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Executive Director</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span 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