Nature at Night

Nature at Night

In this cool NEW adventure, you will set out to discover nature after sunset, explore your surroundings, and help us map our biodiversity by spotting some of UAE’s natural nocturnal inhabitants. Join our team of experts to survey the scorpions, identify bats and listen for owls.  We are looking for wildlife-impassioned volunteers to survey the desert and its nocturnal fauna and assess the challenges to nature.

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
This session is open to all Leaders of Change age 7 years and above. However, children can only attend upon requests and must be accompanied by adults.

HOW LONG WILL IT TAKE?
3 hours

THE AREA OF IMPACT IT CONTRIBUTES TO

The data you help collect will support the expansion of our conservation efforts, and will be used to:

• Identify species, distribution and important areas for the various life stages of each species
• Monitor recovery and pressures
• Investigate how Protected Areas affect populations
• Data collected around the various species can feed into the National Plans of Action for the conservation of these species and support IUCN red listing efforts
• Help change people’s attitudes and behaviours towards bats, scorpions and geckos.

This activity supports our objective to:

• Protect 30% of the UAE’s wild areas by 2030.
• Make 5,000 new research grade observations on iNaturalist– that’s 30% more data than we currently have for the UAE on the iNaturalist app.