What Is YETI?

 

Keeping Our Eyes Peeled in 2013

 

 

Male eyed hawk-moth, a worthy entry of any Pan list and hopefully a species we will see in the summer.

The Y.E.T.I Challenge was born from the inspiration of working within a team of naturalists with different specialisms. We all have a driving passion for natural history and an overwhelming desire to increase opportunities for wildlife in our countryside. So what better way of expressing ourselves than a challenge to see how many living organisms we can see in a year and raise money for small nature conservation projects at the same time!

There are many small volunteer nature conservation groups within our area working hard for wildlife. From digging out wetlands for amphibians to building nest boxes for barn owls. At the end of our Y.E.T.I year we hope to be able to fund some of these projects with grants collected along the way.

The team consists of ten members connected with our small companies of Wold Ecology and Yorkshire Coast Nature. Our work takes us all over the UK but living on eastern side of Yorkshire brings up close to great places where moorland meets forest, rugged coasts, chalk grasslands and freshwater meres. The two great Vice Counties of North and East Yorkshire are our chosen limits.

We have the 12 months of 2013 for the project.

The rules of the challenge are based on the little know Pan Lister’s web site written by Mark Telfer we have our own version of these on our Rules page. Put simply we have to identify as many species as possible as a team total.

This is very much a team effort and we have set ourselves a target of 3,000 species. However if any team member manages to find a new species never before recorded in Yorkshire they will win the covered Y.E.T.I trophy!!