The What on Earth Project
For National Science & Engineering Week 2010, we asked the British public to rediscover their natural surroundings with a camera and a fresh pair of eyes. The What on Earth website documented what's been found and where with a fully interactive gallery.
British biodiversity is currently under threat, with thousands of our plants and animals facing habitat destruction and homelessness. What on Earth was a call-to-action to identify as many plants and animals as possible in UK parks, gardens and hedgerows. We wanted to find some of the wierd and wonderful flora and fauna that inhabits our small but diverse land.
We asked the public to upload a photo of anything they didn't recognise, and we'd do our best to try and identify it! We had over 2000 people register and upload 1379 photos of a huge range of species from across the British Isles.
British biodiversity is currently under threat, with thousands of our plants and animals facing habitat destruction and homelessness. What on Earth was a call-to-action to identify as many plants and animals as possible in UK parks, gardens and hedgerows. We wanted to find some of the wierd and wonderful flora and fauna that inhabits our small but diverse land.
We asked the public to upload a photo of anything they didn't recognise, and we'd do our best to try and identify it! We had over 2000 people register and upload 1379 photos of a huge range of species from across the British Isles.
