Trail cams to help Heswall Wildlife Safari

Heswall Wildlife Safari was set up to help monitor our local wildlife, and to promote greater public interest in some of the elusive creatures who live alongside us.  Many parts of Wirral's countryside are under pressure from development, and it is our mission to demonstrate that these are all areas worth saving.

Another important part of what we do is to obtain video evidence in order to mount a firm challenge to both legal and illegal human interference.  We have been successful up to now, but we need to do more.

Our videos are publicised on social media, and this has led to the discovery of a previously unrecorded badger sett thanks to interaction and feedback from our followers.  We also receive regular badger sightings in people's gardens which help us to generate a more accurate picture of the range of these animals.

We have also been able to gain a better understanding of the population size of Wirral's badgers, and are quickly able to established where they might be struggling or thriving.  This allows us to focus our monitoring efforts.

In autumn 2022 we were able to respond to an incidence of serious wildlife harm by deploying cameras to help secure the area.  Around the same time we provided video assistance when 2 badgers moved into a small suburban back garden.

To safeguard our local wildlife and countryside we need to be able to film it and to do that we need more cameras.  We need to show local people the fantastic wildlife that lives around us, encourage them to protect it, and help guard against human interference.

Currently we have 3 cameras, but we are keen have more in order to monitor more wildlife simultaneously.