Why become a citizen scientist?

• Increase your own scientific knowledge
• Have a role in decision making through your scientific contributions
• Increased sense of belonging to an area.

Free citizen science toolkit: https://www.biodiversa.eu/research-funding/guides-capacity-building/citizen-science-toolkit/

Beginners Guide: https://biodiversityireland.ie/app/uploads/2021/08/NBDC-Beginners-Guide-to-Recording-2022-WEB.pdf

Bat Conservation Ireland

Get involved with Bat Monitoring Surveys from your local waterway, your car, or your own back garden! To learn more about the different projects hosted by Bat Conservation Ireland please click here.

National Biodiversity Data Centre

‘The National Biodiversity Data Centre works to make biodiversity data and information more freely available in order to better understand and assist the protection of Ireland’s biodiversity’

Learn more about your local biodiversity with these free online learning courses which include:

• Spiders of Ireland
• Common Irish Bumblebees
• Ireland’s Butterflies
• And More!

Click here for more information.

You can also get involved with monitoring schemes including:

• Butterflies
• Pollinators
• Dragonflies and Damselflies
• And More!

Click here for more information.

To learn more about citizen science projects that you could get involved with visit: https://www.epa.ie/take-action/in-the-community/citizen-science/