Aim and Tasks
Introduction
Habitat or piece of environment that allow any creature to support their existence is a central point of any ecological projects or conservation activity, even if a project has not direct connection with habitat's conditions. All resent species are result of population's historical adaptation to any specific conditions of habitats. All biological species have their own way to utilise their environment and any damages of habitats conditions may critically affect populations and species.
Therefore different monitoring system can be use for habitats conditions testing and control. Most of them require a special knowledge and experience - this limit possibility to utilize the methods in voluntary organisations or by volunteers. Nevertheless there are some simple, but useful methods that can be use by charities in their projects. One of them - visual registration using digital photography approaches. Digital photo-monitoring allow recording (1) very opportunely, (2) with high quality, (3) with any level of repeatedly, (4) chipper then traditional method, (5) with indefinitely period of storing, (6) with possibility to involve thousand of correspondents.
Aim
Set up a permanent popular visual urban habitats monitoring system (photo-monitoring) for recording, collecting, monitoring and publishing visual habitats information for nature restore, nature protection in urban areas, public ecological education and ecological volunteering purposes
Tasks
-Permanent well-timed photo-monitoring of urban habitats
-Select and processing digital images for Habitats images archive
-Set up a permanent electronic Habitats archive magazine
-Provide habitats visual information for different organisations
-Involve photo and nature volunteers-amateurs ecologists/photographers, especially from ethnic minority groups, into visual recording and monitoring activity
-Set up structures in all London boroughs for local habitats monitoring
-Take active part in public ecological education (involving schoolboys/schoolgirls, mature volunteers, using Habitats archive magazine, special ecological issues)
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