{"id":263,"date":"2023-11-22T08:36:36","date_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=263"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T08:36:37","slug":"30-new-species-seen-in-bath","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/?p=263","title":{"rendered":"30 new species seen in Bath"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As the Guardian headline says this is both <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2023\/nov\/22\/bath-city-farm-30-new-species-climate-crisis\">&#8220;Fascinating and saddening<\/a>&#8220;, because these new species are migrants due to climate change\/global heating. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This data was generated in a city farm in Bath, and shows the value of long term monitoring of small spaces by citizen scientists where the sites are harbouring biodiversity at local scales. Added to a bigger picture of species observations collected on e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inaturalist.org\/\">iNaturalist<\/a>, shows how citizen science can engage with climate change challenges, and have an impact on research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the most heavily mapped areas in Beverley by density of observations is St Mary&#8217;s Graveyard, mostly thanks to the effort of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hullnats.org.uk\/\">Hull Natural History Society<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\">MWN<\/a>. If you&#8217;re ever in St Mary&#8217;s Graveyard, or at the other sites we are monitoring, don&#8217;t forget to add your observations to iNaturalist, as they will help us continue to monitor change (both improved biodiversity, and sadly the effects of climate change too) over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Guardian headline says this is both &#8220;Fascinating and saddening&#8220;, because these new species are migrants due to climate change\/global heating. This data was generated in a city farm in Bath, and shows the value of long term monitoring of small spaces by citizen scientists where the sites are harbouring biodiversity at local scales. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=263"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/molescroftwn.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}