BrockWatch MammalWeb

Ever wondered who’s visiting your garden after dark? Join our brand new citizen science project, BrockWatch, and help us discover how badgers use our urban, suburban and rural spaces.

BrockWatch is recruiting citizen scientists from all over England and Wales to set up camera traps and see what’s living in their local areas. By setting up a wildlife camera in your garden or local space, you can capture fascinating glimpses of badgers and other wildlife, all while contributing to real conservation research. Head to   website to learn more about how to become a trapper.

Don’t have a camera trap? No problem! By helping us review footage from camera trappers and identify wildlife in these images, you're helping build a clearer picture of where badgers live, how they move through our towns and cities, and what other species share their habitats. Every image you review contributes to important research on badger ecology and helps people and badgers live side by side more peacefully.

Whether you're a wildlife lover, a curious beginner, or a seasoned spotter, your input makes a real difference. Look closely as badgers can be surprisingly sneaky, and don’t forget to keep an eye out for foxes, hedgehogs, and other garden visitors!

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Participation in this project is voluntary. Under 18s should be supervised by an adult when setting up and submitting trapper footage or when reviewing via MammalWeb.

Please visit our website for more information about the project, including how to get involved in our BrockWatch Spotter Competition, in which you could win a camera trap!  

Please note: Camera traps may be deployed in private gardens and public spaces, which means that there is the potential for images of humans to be captured. Whilst every effort has been made to remove any images containing humans, we cannot guarantee this. Consequently, some images containing humans may be shown for classification. Once these have been manually classified as showing humans, they will not be shown again.

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