People’s Trust for Endangered Species: Helping endangered animals

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Volunteers in Bristol, and across the wider UK, are being asked to become ‘wildlife detectives’ this spring by searching their gardens, parks and other urban green spaces for wild mammals and recording their findings online.

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00:00Volunteers in Bristol and across the wider UK are being asked to become wildlife detectives

00:09this spring by searching their gardens, parks and other urban green spaces for wild mammals

00:16and recording their findings online.

00:19Conservationists at leading wildlife charity People's Trust for Endangered Species, PTES,

00:26are calling for nature lovers, families and individuals to participate in their annual

00:31Living With Mammals survey which runs throughout the year.

00:36The survey helps conservationists track changes in wild mammal populations from bats and badgers

00:43to wood mice and weasels and crucially identify those that need the most urgent support.

00:51Taking part is simple, all you do is spend little time in a local green space, it might

00:55be a garden or a park, an allotment or a church yard, looking for wild mammals or signs that

01:02they live behind such as footprints or droppings and record them online and whether you spot

01:09unambiguous grey squirrels or a rare red one, a molehill or a mupjack, every record submitted

01:16to the survey website is important.

01:19Historically we haven't associated urban spaces with wildlife but that's changing, it's becoming

01:25more apparent that our towns and cities can be key strong holders for some species such

01:32as hedgehogs and we need people to tell us more about their neighbourhood and they want

01:38people in the city of Bristol to support and protect wildlife within the west of England.

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