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Great concern has been expressed for the future of the hazel dormouse as its numbers across the country have declined by at least a half in the past 100 years. Dormice are a 'flagship species'. Where they occur the habitat is usually very suitable for a wide range of other species. They are also important as 'bioindicators' as they are particularly sensitive to habitat and population fragmentation, so their presence is an indication of habitat integrity and sustainable populations of other sensitive species.
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Kent has one of the longest coastlines in the country, and Kent Mammal Group has never confined its interest to terrestrial mammals. 2010 provided a step change in this level of understanding with the completion of three days of aircraft based observation from the Thames and Medway estuaries to the Goodwin Sands. This survey was instrumental in doubling the numbers of recorded seals when compared to previous surface level observations. The work would not have been possible without the support of Kent and Medway Biological Records Centre and Bramley Associates.
You can watch a short film of the North Kent and Thames Estuary sand bank seal survey that took place in August 2010 in our photo & video gallery section.
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In 2009 it was decided to work more concertedly towards the publication of a new Mammal Atlas for Kent, joining forces with Kent Bat Group, East Kent Badger Group, and the Records Centre. The Group is also working with the Kent God's Acre Project to further wildlife recording and conservation in churchyards and burial grounds across the County. The immediate priority for the atlas is to ensure that there are sufficient records for the fifty plus terrestrial and marine species so that the atlas is seen to be clearly representative of the status of mammals in Kent in the first decade of the 21st century.
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The Kent Mammal Atlas is a collaborative project between The Kent Bat Group (KBG), Kent and Medway Biological Records Centre (KMBRC), The East and West Kent Badger Groups and the Kent Mammal Group (KMG). A mammal atlas commitee has been setup with representation from many of the aforementioned groups that has oversight for the creation and publication of the atlas.
The Kent mammal atlas project is in need of your best digital mammal photographs of species that occur in Kent. We are hoping that you'll send in your best digital photographs to allow the mammal atlas committee to then select photos that are suitable for possible inclusion within the forthcoming mammal atlas.
Copyright of the images must be the property of the submitter and will remain so. The mammal atlas commitee will not be able to confirm receipt of images. The mammal atlas committee reserves the right to publish these images in the atlas as they deem suitable. All photographers of images published in the atlas will receive a credit.
Guidelines For Submitting Images.
Please refer to the Kent Mammal Group website for the list of mammals requiring photographs and also read the specifications below. Please then e-mail your JPEG images to
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Please also let us know whether the animal is captive or wild also where and when the photograph was taken.
1. To determine suitability for inclusion within the atlas. Images must be submitted as JPEGS, saved at the highest quality setting available i.e. 10 in Photoshop, Adobe RGB (1998), and must be 1920 pixels on the longest dimension. The closing date for the submission of JPEGS will be 30th November 2012.
2. If your photograph is selected for inclusion within the atlas a high resolution image will be then be requested (preferably TIFF). This should be 8-bit, Adobe RGB (1998) at 300ppi.
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Pipistrellus pipistrellus
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Balaenoptera acutorostrata
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Northern bottlenose whale
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Lagenorhynchus albitrostris
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Atlantic white-sided dolphin
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If you have made records of mammals in the Kent area we’d love to hear from you!
