{"id":601799,"date":"2026-05-24T18:37:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601799\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:37:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:37:08","slug":"citizen-scientists-needed-to-help-protect-somerset-wildlife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/601799\/","title":{"rendered":"Citizen scientists needed to help protect Somerset wildlife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">No specialist knowledge is required to take part in the Big Count and observations can be submitted from anywhere across Somerset on the iNaturalist app or via a worksheet which can be emailed to the organisers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The project is run in partnership between SWT and the Somerset Environmental Records Centre (SERC), which is the main reference centre for biological and geological information for the county.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It holds over four million data records, but says more records are always needed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ellen Phillpot, from SERC, said data collected through the Big Count 2026 will &#8220;help accurately assess species trends across the county&#8221; and identify population sizes, which in turn will direct conservation and survey efforts. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No specialist knowledge is required to take part in the Big Count and observations can be submitted from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":601800,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[90,56,54,55,4407],"class_list":["post-601799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601799"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601799\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}