Volunteers needed for the Hedgehog Monitoring Programme

Last year volunteers from the Tisbury & District Natural History Society took part in the pilot for the Hedgehog Monitoring Programme and we'd appreciate your assistance again this year. The information is repeated below for any newbies!

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:
 
We are installing cameras on Sat 25th July 2026 (extension to Sun 26th if necessary).
We are taking down cameras on Mon 24th August 2026 (extension to Tues 25th if necessary).
 
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