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Saturday, October 16, 2021

Conservation & Crowd-Sourced Maps

This calendar week I came across ii interesting examples of organisations using crowd-sourced maps inward fellowship to tending protect the countryside inward the UK.


Butterfly Conservation are holding their annual butterfly count (19th July- tenth August). The butterfly count enables Butterfly Conservation to monitor the wellness of butterfly species across the UK.

If you lot catch Butterfly Conservation you lot tin download a Butterfly Chart to tending you lot lay together with tape butterflies. You together with then quest to discovery a suitable place together with pass merely 15 minutes identifying together with recording the butterflies which you lot see.

All the results from this crowd-sourced butterfly census are together with then added to the Butterfly Sightings Google Map. The butterfly sightings on the map tin live on filtered yesteryear date, species, habitat together with location.


The Campaign to Protect Rural England has released a Google Map to lay brownfield sites across the country.

In fellowship to attempt together with halt the over evolution of rural terra firma inward the countryside the CPRE needs your tending to locate brownfield sites where terra firma is beingness wasted together with could live on used for belongings evolution instead.

#WasteOfSpace is a map of all the brownfield sites identified therefore far. You tin contribute to the map yesteryear submitting brownfield sites yesteryear e-mail, yesteryear Tweet or through Facebook.