Public competition to name Britain’s forgotten wildlife
8 July 2010. A host of seemingly forgotten species exist in Britain but many are disappearing fast. Known only to scientists and saddled with obscure Latin names, they lack the common touch and their decline is going unnoticed as a result.
Often we don’t know what we’ve got until it’s gone, but a new competition – launched on 26 June by Natural England, The Guardian and the Oxford University Museum of Natural History – aims to change that. The competition shines a light on the nation’s forgotten species by inviting the public to give them common names as an alternative to the Latin names they have had to live with to date.
