Call for volunteers for a pilot project to monitor hedgehogs

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Tisbury and District Natural History Society is taking part in a pilot project to monitor hedgehogs, run by the People’s Trust for Endangered Species (PTES) and a number of partner organisations.

Do you want to be involved? There are two main ways in which you can and the best part is that you can be a volunteer for both tasks or just one of them! Please contact us.

Part 1: taking pictures
As part of this project, we will deploy 30 trail cameras in a number of locations across the outskirts of Tisbury (please note the camera locations have been already chosen). We need your help to set up and deploy the cameras and then take them down after 1 month! You don’t need to have any experience with trail cameras, as training and supervision will be provided for volunteers. You can give as much or little time as you would like to. Please get in touch with us if you would like to take part in the Tisbury survey.
 
Key dates:
31st of July: deadline to contact us to volunteer with the camera deployment.
 
We are setting up cameras on the 9th and 10th of August.
We are taking down cameras on the 8th and 9th of September.
 
You can be a volunteer for both tasks and dates or just one of them!
 
This is part of a larger survey plan, with other surveys being undertaken within the Wiltshire hub in other parts of the county at different times and other regional hubs. If you would like to be involved with the survey outside Tisbury, please contact the coordinator at PTES (link to form).
 
Part 2: checking pictures
Help is needed to check pictures taken by trail cameras and identify where any animals are present. Some degree of computer literacy skills are needed for this part of the project! Please note there are pictures already from previous years of the survey and from other locations outside Tisbury. All the information for this is online! (link to BHPS)

Further information from the partners of this project can be found in a separate document here