Dr Dan ‘Butterfly’ Danahar is a biodiversity educationalist, who has led many local initiatives within Brighton & Hove. These include leading in 2010 a city-wide approach to biodiversity loss, persuading the public to count butterflies in Brighton which inspired the national Big Butterfly Count and creating Butterfly Havens via an ecological engineering approach to habitat restoration. These initiatives have given the public access to nature on their doorsteps and are now widely adopted by Brighton & Hove City Council. Dan is Executive Trustee of the charitable company Big Nature – www.bignature.co.uk, which aims to revitalise the relationship between people and their local wildlife by creating natural habitats within the UNESCO designated Brighton & Lewes Downs Biosphere region (The Living Coast). He also set up the friends of the Liz Williams Butterfly Haven, which educates the staff and students of Dorothy Stringer School on local nature conservation. Finally, Dan is Executive Director of the Corfu Butterfly Conservation, and will be stepping down in April 2026, when he will write the first comprehensive atlas on the butterflies of Corfu.