We have been working hard on the Youth for Arctic Nature project this autumn! We are hoping to start testing bird monitoring with youth groups in Iceland, the Faroe Islands, Svalbard, and possibly Greenland this spring.

Here is some of the material we have been developing recently. We would love some feedback on it.

We decided to create:

• Species sheets to give youth
  • General information about the different arctic species we have shortlisted for the program
    
  • When they should be present in different arctic regions
    
  • If the species is rare or not in different arctic regions
    

For the species sheets, the bottom part describes the species abundance in different regions throughout the year. A yellow curve means the species is common. IS is Iceland, FO is Faroe Islands, SV is Svalbard, and EG is East Greenland, as these are the regions we are starting with.

• Habitat sheets with the common species that frequent them so that youth can study the environment around them and decide which places they would like to monitor.
  

All of these are still drafts, but they are not going to change too much, especially the species sheets.

We are including here three species sheets, one habitat sheet, and the sheet containing the list of habitats.

Tell us what you think!

Cécile, Jessica, and Einar

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