Conservation & Crowd-Sourced Maps

This calendar week I came across 2 interesting examples of organisations using crowd-sourced maps inwards guild to assistance protect the countryside inwards the UK.


Butterfly Conservation are holding their annual butterfly count (19th July- tenth August). The butterfly count enables Butterfly Conservation to monitor the wellness of butterfly species across the UK.

If you lot take in Butterfly Conservation you lot tin download a Butterfly Chart to assistance you lot put as well as tape butterflies. You as well as then require to discovery a suitable place as well as pass only 15 minutes identifying as well as recording the butterflies which you lot see.

All the results from this crowd-sourced butterfly census are as well as then added to the Butterfly Sightings Google Map. The butterfly sightings on the map tin last filtered past times date, species, habitat as well as location.


The Campaign to Protect Rural England has released a Google Map to put brownfield sites across the country.

In guild to drive as well as halt the over evolution of rural solid reason inwards the countryside the CPRE needs your assistance to locate brownfield sites where solid reason is beingness wasted as well as could last used for belongings evolution instead.

#WasteOfSpace is a map of all the brownfield sites identified therefore far. You tin contribute to the map past times submitting brownfield sites past times e-mail, past times Tweet or through Facebook.