New Conservation & Crowd-Sourced Maps

This calendar week I came across 2 interesting examples of organisations using crowd-sourced maps inward lodge to assist 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 take in Butterfly Conservation you lot tin hand notice download a Butterfly Chart to assist you lot pose together with tape butterflies. You hence involve to honor a suitable place together with pass but xv minutes identifying together with recording the butterflies which you lot see.

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


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

In lodge to endeavor together with halt the over evolution of rural solid reason inward the countryside the CPRE needs your assist to locate brownfield sites where solid reason is beingness wasted together with could live on used for holding evolution instead.

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