Our citizen science surveys offer opportunities for volunteers to learn survey techniques and identification skills through training and mentoring from our ecologists, as well as the added wellbeing benefits of getting outside and connecting with nature.
Having surveyors out and about on our canal and river network also helps raise public awareness of nature conservation issues and the work that our staff, volunteers and contractors are doing to improve them.
Our surveys will run every year so that we can record trends over long periods of time. This will help provide evidence of how the Unlocking Biodiversity project has positively impacted canal habitats and the species that rely on them, and will also provide data to to help us plan future conservation work.
