Citizen Science

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

Bee identification in the field

Nominate your wildlife heroes

White-tailed bumblebee. © Pieter Haringsma

Bumblebees suffered in the extreme weather of 2018