Numbers of the silver-studded blue butterfly are declining
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A wildlife trust is launching an appeal to raise £45,000 to buy land in order to save rare butterflies.
Shropshire Wildlife Trust wants to turn a third of Prees Heath Common into a nature reserve to safeguard its colony of silver-studded blue butterflies.
The Butterfly Trust and Cheshire Wildlife Trust are helping with the appeal as the land is close to the Cheshire border.
A spokesman said it was a chance for them to do something effective.
Shropshire Wildlife Trust director Colin Parson said: "So often we hear stories of threatened wildlife extinctions and feel powerless to stop the decline.
"Here at Prees Heath we have an opporutnity to do something effective."
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