The Mammal Watch South East (MaWSE) project
This exciting project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, aimed to increase public involvement in discovering and monitoring mammals in the six South East counties of Hampshire, Surrey, West Sussex, East Sussex, Kent and the Isle of Wight,to create an online South East Mammal Atlas by early 2015. The project is now complete and the results listed below.
Online South East Mammal Atlas is now available!
Check out our MaWSE videos on the MaWSE YouTube Channel!
Your stories!
You tell us your mammal encounters in this section.
- Hedgehogs, Chris Matcham
- Analysing biodiversity through camera traps, Ewan Bishop
- Nest of baby hedgehogs in my garden, Nicky Torbett
- Tracking the little creatures of Wareham, Georgina Head
- The beavers of Scotland, Sam Hempenstall
Take a look at the camera trap videos we’ve been receiving through our loan scheme on our
Mammal Watch South East YouTube channel
Website resources:
Visit the other areas of the MaWSE project site, including:
Learn all about mammals, including how to identify them through direct sightings and field signs and even some of their sounds to listen to.
Learn about how to record mammals either online or through the Mammal Tracker App.
Get involved in our survey effort that has been developed in collaboration with the experts and take part in the hedgehog or harvest mouse survey.
Available nationally, you can download our app to identify and submit records of mammals from the Google Play store for Android and the itunes store for iPhones.
(The app works on iOS version 6 or later for iphone and version 4.0.3 or later for android OS phones. It is not available on Windows phones).
Mammal Tracker will help you identify which mammal species you have seen with photos, descriptions, sounds and annotated images of those that are often easily confused, as well as making it easy to submit the record to us. We ask that you try to get photos where possible as this helps with verifying the record but you can still submit records without photos.
You can also visit the Mammal Tracker app’s own website at www.brc.ac.uk/mammal_tracker to see all records and find out if you are on the leaderboard for the number of mammal species you have recorded!
