Citizen Science

Face masks are increasingly being washed up on British beaches.

PPE litter washing up on British beaches due to coronavirus pandemic

Birdwatchers

Global Bird Weekend: when it is, and how to take part

Volunteer surveying from the land in Scrabster, Scotland. © Zoe Doran

Scotland records highest number of whale and dolphin sightings in annual UK survey

Sinistral Jeremyl on top of a dextral snail. © Angus Davison/University of Nottingham

How Jeremy the ‘shellebrity’ snail found fame and advanced scientific understanding

Person holding litter collected from a beach, MSC

Volunteers asked to record PPE during this year’s Great British Beach Clean

Peacock butterfly in a garden. © Jack Perks/FLPA/Getty

Join in with a global citizen science project this weekend

Short-necked oil beetle. © Annie Haycock

One of the UK’s rarest oil beetles found in Wales

Students pond dipping at Epping Forest Education centre.

People & Wildlife

Citizen science: what are the benefits and how to get involved

Male house sparrow. © Ray Kennedy/RSPB

RSPB reveals results from the Big Garden Birdwatch

Dr Nathalie Pettorelli. © ZSL

Meet The Scientist

How social media is helping monitor new species to Britain

Katy Potts Longhorns_CMYK

Running a beetle recording scheme

Vicky Barnes. © Andrea Gilpin

Conserving wildlife in burial grounds

Charlotte Rankin

Helping urban pollinators in Cornwall

Barrel jellyfish. © Dan Abbott

New jellyfish citizen science project launches

Sand dunes at Morfa Dyffryn, Wales, UK

Funding from the National Lottery aims to save threatened sand dunes