Pollenize is fundraising for a collaborative project with Plymouth City Council to establish small native wildflower meadows in the Chaddlewood area to improve biodiversity and community engagement.
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Pollenize CIC want to continue the story of positive environmental messaging from the ‘Chaddlewood Subway’s Project’ by establishing as many urban native wildflower meadows as possible. At the same time, they want to invite the community to help capture important data on how well the meadows perform through Bioblitz surveys.
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Bioblitzes engage community members in documenting local biodiversity over a set time. This can raise awareness of biodiversity, connect people to nature, build community cohesion, inform conservation efforts, and encourage citizen science participation.
Pollenize conducts bioblitzes using the iNaturalist app which digitally records observations with time, date, and location stamps, supporting accurate and automated data collection. It creates research-quality data for scientists with no botanical experience needed, making it accessible to many.
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Signage will be installed at each meadow patch allowing the public to further contribute to the data collection via a QR code. The QR code will direct you to iNaturalist page where you can sign up, create a profile, search for the project, for example, “Chaddlewood Bioboost Hillcrest, and then join that project and become a citizen scientist and help collect valuable data on biodiversity.
A recent Environment Agency study shows 41% of England’s native flora and fauna species have considerably decreased since 1970, with 15% at serious risk of extinction. Pollinators are key to our food supply, without them, we can expect to see more empty shelves in supermarkets.
