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Draw your circle
Click anywhere on the map and a circle appears there. Search for a town, drag the pin to move it, and use the size buttons to make it bigger or smaller. Everything on the next two pages is built from whatever falls inside.
Click anywhere on the map to drop your circle there.
Smaller circles are easier to write about. Drag the pin to move the circle anywhere.
What is inside your circle
Click the map and this fills in with real biodiversity records.
Name your place
What do you call this place? Use whatever you actually call it — "behind my grandmother's house" is a better title than "study area 1".
Or start from one of these
Ten places across the country with very different living communities. Choosing one drops a circle for you — you can move or resize it afterwards.