The 24 hour bioblitz at Wicken Fen will start at 5pm on Saturday 21st July, finishing at 5pm on Sunday 22nd July 2018. On Sunday 22 July Chris Packham will be joining us as one of 48 sites across the country he’ll be stopping off as part of his UK Bioblitz – nature reserves are not enough! campaign.
Chris’s campaign has a serious purpose, as the results of the 2018 audit will be recorded to create a benchmark: this will help measure the rise and fall in numbers of different species on these sites in the future.
He’ll be starting off in the Scottish Highlands on July 14th and from there, over the course of 10 days, he’ll weave his way across the UK, taking in Northern Ireland, Wales and parts of England along the route. All forms of life will be investigated in this snapshot of the country’s wildlife: from flies to fungi, mammals to moths and birds to butterflies. At each site Chris and the UK Bioblitz team which includes 100’s of experts, young conservationists and film makers and people from all backgrounds and abilities will be helped by species specialists, alongside enthusiastic amateurs, to pinpoint the winners and losers in the battle for Britain’s countryside.
