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Article
How citizen naturalists use Slow Ways to survey wildlife
What if people walking Slow Ways routes used these pathways as wildlife transects across the country: recording wildlife as they walk and contributing invaluable data to inform the regeneration of our country’s flora and fauna?
Guest
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18 July 2023
Blog
Wandering poetics with ChatGPT
What happens when you ask ChatGPT for walking advice? Or to create a poem? Resident eco-poet Caleb Parkin headed to Troopers Hill, Bristol to find out
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20 June 2023
Nature
Help scientists, economists and academics learn more about how trees make you feel
Choose one of eight woodland walks with GoJauntly and feed into an ambitious cross-disciplinary research project
Saira Niazi
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3 October 2022
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