Action

Surveys you can participate in and the organisations which run them…

Animals

  • Bat Conservation Trust - National Bat Monitoring Programme – www.bats.org.uk
  • British Deer Society – Great British Deer Survey – www.bds.org.uk 
  • British Trust for Ornithology – Breeding Bird Survey or Waterways Breeding Bird Survey or Garden Bird Survey – www.bto.org
  • Peoples Trust for Endangered Species - National Dormouse Monitoring Programme or Mammals on Roads or Living with Mammals – www.ptes.org or www.mtuk.org
  • The Mammal Society – Pick up a Polecat, National Owl Pellet Survey, Small Mammal Survey – www.mammal.org.uk
  • Hedgehog survey - fears that the hedgehog may be in decline have prompted research by Paul Bright. Help his survey by logging onto www.hogwatch.org
  • RSPB - Big Garden Bird Watch 

    • Plantlife

  • Plant Invaders Survey - for people in towns and cities too. Results for three of the UK's most destructive invasive plants - Japanese Knotweed, Indian Balsam and New Zealand Pygmyweed - can be filled in online or on a postcard. Log onto the website: www.plantlife.org.uk or contact Katherine Stewart for a postcard. Tel. 011722 342755.

    • If you have any ideas, information, articles or pictures that might be suitable, please send them to: the Environment Pages Co-ordinator