Press release Stag beetle wanted – The successful Citizen Science project for forest nature conservation goes into the next round

Freising, 18.04.2023: In 2022, the Bavarian State Institute for Forests and Forestry (LWF) and the Rhön Biodiversity Centre (BioZ) at the Bavarian State Office for the Environment (LfU) called on the public to report stag beetle findings. In 2022 alone, 1733 confirmed stag beetle reports from 1305 reporters were recorded in this way in cooperation with the association Hirschkäferfreunde-NatureTwo e.V.. The project is now entering a new round. From mid-April onwards, the call will be out again: stag beetles wanted throughout Bavaria. A closer look at the reporting data from 2022 reveals that the distribution of the warmth-loving species is [...]