Current Wildlife Surveys

The Norfolk Wildlife Trust has launched a number of recording schemes, aimed at the public, as part of its Natural Connections programme. This initiative is designed to encourage people who have little or no previous survey experience to become actively involved in collecting information about the county's wildlife through a series of simple surveys, covering both plant and animal groups. Each survey will run for a period of several months, and there will be at least two surveys running concurrently at any point during the year - to find out which surveys are running at the moment and learn how to get involved, click here.

Butterfly Conservation organised a Garden Moth Count from June 22nd-24th. Although the count weekend is now over, surveying goes on because many of the UK's moths, such as the Garden Tiger, have undergone major declines. Butterfly Conservation want to raise public awareness and recruit more people for the on-going National Moth Recording Scheme. For more about moths and how to trap and record them, go to the web site which is packed with useful information: http://www.mothcount.brc.ac.uk