Cornwall Mammal Group

The Cornwall Mammal Group was set up in 1999 and is affiliated to The Mammal Society. We share the same aims of raising awareness and understanding of mammals; encouraging and supporting their recording; providing training to survey mammals; promoting conservation of mammals and their habitats and sharing interests and skills with others.

Like many counties, some mammals have been historically well represented and Cornwall can boast of dedicated badger, otter and bat groups. Our marine mammals are also well catered for under Seaquest Southwest. However, there was a distinct gap in terrestrial mammal knowledge and recording and this is where Cornwall Mammal Group aims its focus.

I am delighted a mammal project is now underway with the Environmental Record Centre for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly. They have instigated a four-year mammal awareness-raising project and will utilise supporters from all four of these dedicated groups. Together we can build up a detailed knowledge of the distribution and status of our mammal resource in the toe of Britain.

All mammals are under-recorded
in this county and probably nationally.

You can help simply by recording the mammals you see and sending the records to us care of the Cornwall Wildlife Trust.

The Cornwall Mammal Group newsletters are now available to download via our web site. Please see our downloads page for details.

Kate Stokes
Founder member of Cornwall Mammal Group

Other items that may be of interest:

• Mammals in Cornwall
• Celebrating Cornwall's Mammals from dormice to dolphins!

Projects .... Bat Conservation Bodyline CRAG Dolphin Group Geology Mammal Group Otter Group PARC Seaquest Seasearch Seal Group Water for Wildlife VIC SEARCH . . . . . . . . .