Citizen science project to track small mammals in Guernsey (www.bbc.com)

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Ecologists are asking islanders to help track small mammals through a new citizen science project called Garden Paws.

Organised by Nature Commission Guernsey, the project aims to gather more data on species that are difficult to monitor.

A recent State of Nature report found there were fewer small mammals in Guernsey and Herm than in the UK, but the reasons for this remain unclear.

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[-] als 2 points 1 week ago

Or they could point to iNaturalist which is an open source project aimed at documenting biodiversity of all kinds. It has nearly 10 million registered users and over 300 million observations to date.

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