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The New Year Plant Hunt is a citizen science project organised by the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI). A sister project was started by the Dutch society Floron in 2015.

The project was founded by botanists Dr Tim Rich, then taxonomist at the National Museum of Wales, and Dr Sarah Whild, of the Manchester Metropolitan University. They spent New Year's Day 2012 visiting locations in and around Cardiff, Wales identifying all vascular plants which were in flower.

The hunt occurs over 4 days including New Year's Day. The dates are chosen each year by BSBI to allow as many to participate as possible, and multiple days allows the effects of bad weather to be mitigated improving the scientific value of the data collected.

The Netherlands
The dutch version of the hunt is known as the End of Year Plant Hunt (Eindejaars Plantenjacht), and runs between Christmas and New Year. Therefore when comparing with the Britain and Ireland hunt, the year must be increased by one.

Media Coverage
Since it began the hunt has received extensive media coverage, both in press and broadcast media. The first hunt was covered by BBC Radio 4's Today programme, and the 2018 hunt featured on BBC Countryfile in January 2018.

External Links & Media

 * Tim Rich interviewed] on BBC Radio 4 Today programme.
 * article in The Independent newspaper.