NNR Project

The North Pennines National Nature Reserves are managed by Natural England and are located across County Durham, Cumbria and Northumberland. The sites incorporate a wide variety of rare habitat types including oak wooded gorges, upland limestone flushes, unique valleys mires and the summit heaths and blanket bogs of the highest points on the Pennine ridge. Our camera traps will be roving around our reserves opportunistically recording wildlife not often seen by other methods. These images will help build an understanding of how our sites are used by mammals and how this may inform our management practice, as well as feeding scarce upland records into regional species distribution data. The camera trapping process and images generated also provide us with a great engagement and education resource allowing us to share some great wildlife behaviour with our volunteers and visitors. We also aim to get the highest camera trap in the county!