UK OVERSEAS TERRITORIES CONSERVATION FORUM
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Features of Natural Interest

More than 300 species of invertebrate have been found on Ascension Island and current research is underway to list them all. Records currently indicate the presence of around 28 endemic invertebrate species and this number will clearly rise as research progresses. 

Butterfly Hypolimnasmisippus collected by P. de la Garde in 1894. 


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