Advocates are pushing for more wildlife-rich urban green spaces, arguing nature needs to be integrated directly into communities.
The conservation programme will focus efforts in Cornwall, Kent, and the North Pennines to support the declining species.
Friends of the Lake District plans to plant hundreds of native wildflowers to bring back species pushed out by decades of intensive farming.
More than 77,000 butterflies were counted in Devon and 47,000 in Cornwall this July, but experts warn shifting weather patterns threaten future numbers.
Surveys by the Countryside Regeneration Trust detected dormice on a farm near Bridport, seen as a sign of a thriving habitat.
Nations agreed to protect 30% of Earth's land and sea by 2030, but with the deadline's halfway point reached, campaigners say current protection levels fall well short.
A newly recognized feline species from Bolivia marks what researchers describe as the first new wild cat added to the scientific record in more than 100 years, according to a report by Al Jazeera.
Researchers say the small feline, known locally as the tilcayo, is the first new living cat species to be formally described in more than a century.
A mollusc once common across the United Kingdom has been reduced to a single surviving population in a lake in Wales, according to a report by BBC Science & Environment.