WILDLIFE spotting enthusiasts are invited to sign up for PTES, People’s Trust for Endangered Species Mammals on Roads survey which runs until the end of September 2015.

PTES is calling on volunteers up and down the country to record any sightings of mammals, dead or healthy, that they spot on their car journeys via their mobile phones and tablets.

The free PTES Mammals on Roads app is available from Google Play and the App Store and volunteers can view their sightings via interactive maps online. Each car journey must be 20 miles or more on single-carriageways in one day.

The survey findings are vital in helping to monitor the changing state of Britain’s wildlife populations. PTES is a UK conservation charity created in 1977 to ensure a future for endangered species throughout the world.

Working to protect some of the most threatened wildlife species and habitats, it provides practical conservation support through funding research and internships, providing grant-aid for world-wide and native mammals species conservation, supporting education, training and outreach programmes and driving public participation via wildlife monitoring surveys, publications, campaigns and events.

Priority species and habitats include hazel dormice, hedgehogs, water voles, noble chafer and stag beetles and traditional orchards and native woodlands.

For those without smart phones but keen to take part, the survey can be completed online (register at www.ptes.org/get-involved where Mammals on Roads is listed under the surveys section) or on paper with a printed survey pack. Email [email protected] or call 020 7498 4533 to request a pack.