Wildlife News for July
Posted: Mon Jul 01, 2013 12:03 pm
New "Mammals on Roads" App!
The People's Trust for Endangered Species has just launched a new app for Android phones as well as iPhones.
July sees the start of the Trust's "Mammals on Roads" survey, a nationwide survey of mammal sightings along single-carriageways. To date, over half a million kilometres of road have been surveyed, and changes in counts of species such as hedgehogs, foxes and badgers have been tracked over time. Findings from the survey have already alerted the drastic decline in hedgehogs and were the impetus for our hedgehog projects and surveys.
The Mammals on Roads app logs your route and lets you record the mammals (roadkill or healthy) that you spot along the way. You can check your records online and distribution maps of records collected nationally will be available in the future. The information helps us to monitor how populations in the wild are changing from year to year and to act in time if numbers are falling. Mammals on Roads puts you in the driving seat of conservation.
Get the apps here:
Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... nJvYWRzIl0
iPhone - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mammals ... 09227?mt=8
And don't forget to record on RODIS as well!
The People's Trust for Endangered Species has just launched a new app for Android phones as well as iPhones.
July sees the start of the Trust's "Mammals on Roads" survey, a nationwide survey of mammal sightings along single-carriageways. To date, over half a million kilometres of road have been surveyed, and changes in counts of species such as hedgehogs, foxes and badgers have been tracked over time. Findings from the survey have already alerted the drastic decline in hedgehogs and were the impetus for our hedgehog projects and surveys.
The Mammals on Roads app logs your route and lets you record the mammals (roadkill or healthy) that you spot along the way. You can check your records online and distribution maps of records collected nationally will be available in the future. The information helps us to monitor how populations in the wild are changing from year to year and to act in time if numbers are falling. Mammals on Roads puts you in the driving seat of conservation.
Get the apps here:
Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... nJvYWRzIl0
iPhone - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/mammals ... 09227?mt=8
And don't forget to record on RODIS as well!