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This is a large project and we need any help that you can give to set up the project or in collecting data for the project.
Collecting data within
parishes. As well as recording things that you
see on a regular basis, we need help in identifying
landowners to ask permission to survey and for feedback on local
wildlife. We also need a coordinator in each parish
to liaise between volunteers, landowners and myself, preferably someone
who is on the internet. |
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| Developing
survey projects for volunteers. Anyone with knowledge and interest in any
particular subject e.g. reptiles, small mammals, birds, wild flowers etc,
could help in setting out the information needed for survey
packs and for the website. |
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| Developing the
Website. We are also looking for people to write
something regularly about wildlife in their parish and for experts
to help us produce lists of what to look for and
record each month. If anyone has web developing skills, we would be
glad of advice and help to make this website easy to
read and navigate as well as sharing the load in expanding the information
available on the site. |
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| Artwork and
Photographs. The survey packs and the website both need good
illustrations to bring survey packs and web pages to life and to simplify
the identification of selected species e.g. drawings of the markings on
the heads and bodies of grass snakes and adders, or of specific wildflowers
that we want volunteers to find and record. |
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| Sponsorship. Although
the project was set up with a grant, we have no regular funds to cover the
running costs of survey packs, more surveying equipment as numbers of
volunteers grow, photographic expenses etc. Contributions from local
businesses are welcome. |
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| Natural History Books.
We have an library
of books, pamphlets and journals, acquired either though the original Millennium
Award, or through car-boot sales. This available to
anyone in the local area and so far has been used extensively by
local schools. If you have any books journals, encyclopedias etc on
natural history that you no longer want, then consider putting them into
this library. We will make good use of them. |
If you can help in any of the above ways, or need more information on any of the above topics, then contact the webmaster