A new Wildlife Information Service set up by Norfolk Wildlife Trust (NWT) aims to help answer your questions about Norfolk’s wildlife. As part of a three year Heritage Lottery Funded project, NWT’s website now incorporates the answers to these and many other frequently asked questions, with a new facility to email your wildlife question to be answered by a team of Norfolk experts. The new web pages also include interactive online wildlife surveys and a photo gallery, with the aim of bringing people together to record, celebrate and enhance wildlife locally.
Visitors to the website can learn about Norfolk’s wildlife from detailed species profiles; submit and view their photos of Norfolk wildlife on the stunning wildlife photo gallery; and take part in citizen science surveys. It is designed so everyone throughout Norfolk can learn about and become actively involved in helping Norfolk’s wildlife and enjoy the diversity and beauty of Norfolk’s wildlife and wild places.
The site has taken several months to create, and over the next three years will grow to hold hundreds of species profiles and thousands of images in the gallery. It has been developed and hosted by Norwich based IT services company, Poynter Limited, a corporate member of NWT. Poynter director Nick Vincent commented: “It is a pleasure to see NWT making use of technology in this way. The array of pictures seen so far truly encapsulates the beauty of wildlife in Norfolk. The interactive website is easy to use and allows the Norfolk community to become effortlessly involved.â€
Director of Norfolk Wildlife Trust Brendan Joyce commented: “This new website will enable us to involve people across Norfolk in discovering, enjoying and recording the wildlife in their own local area. Everyone can help wildlife, whether in the countryside or towns, and the new information service will make it easy for people to find out how. The great thing about wildlife is once you get interested there is something new to discover every day!’
View the new website at www.norfolkwildlifetrust.org.uk/naturalconnections/