Meet the Species

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Meet the Species is part of Discovering Places the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad Campaign to inspire the UK to discover their local environment.

Meet the Species is a project that engages large numbers of people with the environment around them by helping them discover the wildlife that they share it with.

The project invites people to get actively involved in the identification and surveying of species, and as it's the year of London 2012 we thought why not try and collect records for 2012 of them!

From January 2012 people across the UK will be able to get actively involved in a number of ways. Not only will staff at the Meet the Species HQ be organising a number of feature events throughout the UK, other organisations and wildlife groups will be putting on Meet the Species events in their own communities. A downloadable Education pack will also be available for teachers to run activities within their schools and online blogs and twitter feeds will keep everyone up to date with what's happening!

Meet the Species, part of Discovering Places, is principally funded by the National Lottery through the Olympic Lottery Distributor. 

Discovering Places is delivered in partnership between The Heritage Alliance and London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.