About the event

A Bioblitz is a communal effort to record as many species within a designated location and time period as possible. Using the iNaturalist app, Tom will guide you around Sydenham Hill Wood and Dulwich Wood where you will be learning to identify your observations while contributing to the database of species living within the woodland. This walk will focus on galls, distinctive abnormal growths formed by trees' protective reaction to chemicals secreted by feeding insects, mites, bacteria, or fungi.

Download iNaturalist for Android here
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Open the app and make an account before you arrive at the walk to make sure you observations are recorded.

If you have any trouble with app, don't be put off. Come along and the guide can help you get set up.

📍 Meeting Point: Sydenham Hill Train Station car park

What3Words location: ridge.rubble.visit

⏰ Time: Meeting at 11am & Walk leaves promptly at 11:05

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Who can come: Open to all

What to expect:

🌳 1 hour 55 min guided route, returning to the meeting point

🦋 Contribute to citizen science using the iNaturalist app

🌺 Discover Sydenham Hill and Dulwich Woods: 25 hectares of woodland with more than 200 species of trees and plants

The delivery of the 'Reuniting Sydenham Hill Wood and Dulwich Wood' project is made possible by our funders and community partners: The National Lottery Heritage Fund, The Dulwich Estate, Southwark Council, The Kusuma Trust, The John Horseman Trust, Black Girls Hike, Wanderers of Colour and Kingswood Community CIC. The funding and partnerships help to secure the future of the Woods and support bringing together the management of Sydenham Hill Wood and Dulwich Wood under London Wildlife Trust.