Countryside Survey 2000

BTO volunteers completed visits to around 330 Countryside Survey 2000 squares during the spring of 2000. Countryside Survey 2000 is an Institute of Terrestrial Ecology survey of land use, vegetation and freshwater plants and animals in a selection of 1-km squares across Britain.

Most of these squares have now been surveyed 3 or 4 times since the first Countryside Survey in 1978 building-up an impressive data-set of the habitats within them. This year, for the first time, birds have also been surveyed in these 1-km squares.

This exciting project was funded by the Department of Environment Transport and the Regions.

A complete report can be found at www.cs2000.org.uk/report.htm