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Surrey Wildlife Trust Wildlife Recording Kits

Want to know what wildlife might be making its home on ground you own, manage or work on with a community group? Help is at hand thanks to SWT's 'Wildlife Recording Kits' - boxes filled with surveying equipment to help you undertake species monitoring on sites from gardens and recreation grounds to local woodland. Learn more about SWT's Wildlife Recording Kits here. 

See all the SWT Wildlife Recording Kits in Guildford Library of Things. 

About this kit

Footprint traps are a fantastic way of discovering which mammal species live in your neighbourhood or garden. These are simple plastic tunnels that contain some tempting food, inkpads and paper, so that when a mammal comes to investigate the food, they leave inky footprints behind. By knowing what you have on your site, can help you make better decisions on what actions to take to help nature. 

This kit contains:

• A plastic footprint tunnel x 3
  
• A tracking plate (a simple sheet of stiff plastic that you put the food, ink and paper on, and insert in the tunnel) x 3
• Masking tape
• Pot of black poster paint powder
• Small sponge (to spread the ink on the masking tape)
• Feeding dish x 3
• Tent pegs to keep the tunnel in place x 8
• Red flags x 3
• Footprint guide – British mammals tracks and signs

The items in this kit come in a handy carry case, pictured below.

After borrowing this kit, you may wish to sign-up for SWT's Wilder Communities (www.surreywildlifetrust.org/get-involved/projects/wilder-communities).

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Carbon saving

Save 7.8 Kg of CO2 emissions by borrowing this item, compared to buying it new.