Andrew Colley, Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority Member Champion for Conservation of the Natural Environment, said: \u201cThe Yorkshire Dales National Park is renowned for its rich and diverse wildlife. Some of the species are well known, like red squirrels and bluebells, but others are extremely rare. This is a chance for anyone who sees something that they don\u2019t recognise to find out what it is.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Natalie Broadhurst, the Association\u2019s Regional Programmes Officer, said: \u201cThe theme of the week is \u2018Earth\u2019 and we are running various projects on a biodiversity theme to complement the United Nations\u2019 International Year of Biodiversity this year. These include, amongst many others, our “What on Earth” project, which aims to get the public to send in photos of British wildlife that they don’t recognise so that we can link them up with experts who can help identify it during the week.<\/p>\n
\u201cUpload a photo of anything you don\u2019t recognise and in return we’ll try our best to identify it and \u2013 subject to availability \u2013 we will send you a free packet of seeds designed to encourage more creatures to inhabit your local space in addition to a Biodiversity Information and Activity Pack.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Visitors to the Yorkshire Dales National Park are being urged to start nature spotting and get involved in a national drive to increase awareness of their natural surroundings. A project run by the British Science Association is encouraging people to take photos of animals and plant life that are unfamiliar and post them on a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[1758,1748,600,1755,1757,1761,190,1749,1759,1752,1750,338,1760,1754,1751,1756,1753,185,182,181],"class_list":["post-1133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-news","tag-biodiversity-information","tag-biodiversity-theme","tag-bluebells","tag-british-science","tag-british-wildlife","tag-broadhurst","tag-dales-national-park","tag-earth-project","tag-free-packet","tag-natural-surroundings","tag-photos-of-animals","tag-red-squirrels","tag-science-association","tag-species-section","tag-united-nations-international","tag-what-on-earth","tag-whatonearth","tag-yorkshire-dales","tag-yorkshire-dales-national-park","tag-yorkshire-dales-national-park-authority","entry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/author\/admin-2\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1136,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1133\/revisions\/1136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.naturearoundme.com\/contents1a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}