Information is being sought on the status of native wild mammals and their habitats at a constituency level. This is part of a UK-wide ‘threat-mapping’ exercise intended to boost political engagement around conservation and climate change mitigation.
This mapping exercise has been initiated by a research team for Lord Foster and is being undertaken under the guidance of The Mammal Society. The aim is to obtain local information which can then be presented to MPs to help persuade them to give the environmental crisis the attention it deserves by emphasising how it is a ‘local issue’ not just a national/global one.
While national policy and big picture strategy is essential to bending the curve on biodiversity loss, local issues can often be tackled most effectively at a local level, yielding immediate benefits to constituents who value their local natural assets and opportunities to experience wildlife, while contributing tangibly to addressing the biggest issue of our time.
The data collected in this survey will be shared (with no personal data unless explicit permission has been granted to do so) with Lord Foster’s research team to inform these outputs, and may also be drawn on by the Mammal Society to inform communications, campaigns and research intended to promote valuable nature restoration action around the UK.
The Mammal Society has asked the NBN Trust to help publicise the survey as it wants to reach out to local environmental records centres, recording schemes and other networks of informed and invested nature monitors, given their knowledge of key issues and causes for concern in their local areas.
Responses are being sought as soon as possible please, so if you could be encouraged to complete the survey in the next two weeks (by 17 December), that would be incredibly helpful.