North American Butterfly Association

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The North American Butterfly Association (NABA) was created in 1992 by Jeffrey Glassberg who currently resides as the association's president. The NABA was formed in order to promote awareness of butterfly conservation and the benefits of butterfly gardening, observation, photography and education.

As with the National Audubon Society and the Christmas Bird Count, the NABA holds annual volunteer butterfly counts in the weeks leading up to or after July 4 in the United States, July 1 in Canada, and September 16 in Mexico. The volunteers scout out a meeting place and by map create a 15 mile circle in which they count all the butterflies they see within one day. These counts when completed can give clues into the butterfly biodiversity of a particular region.