Miner 2 Major Project

Miner to Major Project                      Miner 2 Major

We are involved in a National Lottery Heritage Funded project called Miner2Major. Miner2Major is a five-year Landscape Partnership Scheme (2019-2023) which aims to promote and safeguard the natural, built and cultural heritage at the historic core of Sherwood Forest, engaging local communities through a variety of people-focused projects.

https://miner2major.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/

NBG’s role in this project will be to carry out surveys, primarily using static detectors, to determine the presence of some of our rarer bat species, barbastelle, Leisler’s and serotine bats within the Sherwood forest area. The information gathered from these surveys will be used to implement conservation actions to support the species such as erecting bat boxes, habitat management and updating species action plans. In addition, we will be engaging with members of the public and providing walks and talks organised to educate locals on bats.

Bat Detector Deployment

As part of the project we were fortunate enough to receive training from Neil Middleton of BatAbility on call analysis and the use of anabat insight. NBG is also providing some zoom training sessions on call analysis to members to generate more help with data analysis next season!

BatAbility Training Day

BatAbility Training Day with Neil Middleton

We’ve received some additional equipment including static anabat swift detectors which we will be deploying across several woodlands. Although covid has stalled some of our planned walks and talks and delayed our first year of data collection we did managed to deploy statics across four woodlands towards the latter half of summer 2020 and are currently using our newly developed skills to analyse the calls.

Brown Long Eared bat social call

If you’re interested in helping us out on the project please get in touch!