“It’s all about portability and weight. As long as it’s not heavy I have no real problem. Also of course pricing...or whether those wearables can be put in places so although they’re portable they could be stationary.”

“I think surfing as a platform has massive potential to deepen our connection and understanding of the oceans, and I think it’s nowhere near being activated.”

“We look at check sheets. What did you see, where did you see it, when did you see it. Instead of having to write it all down, you can just tick a box. Put the animals on a sheet and so you can just tick them off.”

“Nature allows me to detox from the busy life I lead. It allows me to turn off technology, tune into the birds, to see the views and to put everything into perspective.”

“It’s all about portability and weight. As long as it’s not heavy I have no real problem. Also of course pricing...or whether those wearables can be put in places so although they’re portable they could be stationary”

“Apps are great but connectivity is a problem with some of them. I can’t get reception when I’m up a mountain.”

“There is opportunity to find commonalities in local places between different groups around a common issue, I see this more and more around the development of coast lines or destruction of habitats. Local and indigenous communities connecting with surfers to collaborate.”

“I’ve got this app on my phone, this butterfly spotter thing but I’ve never used it. When I see a butterfly I never remember to get my phone. I tend to take a photo and then look it up if I’m not sure. In that moment I’m not looking at the phone, I’m looking at the butterfly.”

“I think the problem we have now is that, especially in London, everyone’s so busy, we’re all “so busy” that no one really plays their part because we think someone else will do it. ”

“I use Google Maps and Citymapper pretty much wherever I go and I’m pretty sure that’s the same for anyone in any city. We’re reliant on the stuff that can get us from A-B and rarely notice what’s going on in between that distance.”

“If you’re told to do a survey, that’s a bit of a yawn. But if you’re given a challenge to go find the most exciting bugs out there and how will we find out then suddenly you’ve presented the whole idea in a much better light for a child so they’ll still be doing the survey work but they’ll have a purpose and the purpose is meaningful to the children”

“I live in rural Cumbria which sounds great but there’s a lot of the time the weather is bad or I don’t have transport and my area doesn’t really seem to have that much wildlife in it.”

“Kids are ace when you are out and trying to spot stuff, they are nearer to the ground, they can notice things we adults can’t, we should make more of that.”

“We asked 46 explorer families about the issues they care about. Safeguarding natural habitats, climate change and keeping the countryside and coastline accessible for future generations were top rated (65, 61, 60% interested, respectively).”

“Of the 46 families we asked, 59% were worried about climate change, 59% about the disappearance of local green spaces, 54% about kids spending too much time on screens and 52% about kids not spending enough time outdoors”

“Felt like you were contributing to something bigger and that was quite nice, because it feels like you’re actually making a difference even if you’re one number in thousands - and also it’s about being part of that group, the thousands, that is quite nice.”

“Having it a bit more social. Because a lot people won’t sit for hours staring at their bird feeder but they might if they were doing it with their friends and drinking cups of tea.”

“When you have young kids, it takes a while getting used to being out walking with them, cos they’re a bit slow, and I used to mountain bike and surf at the weekend, you can get frustrated, but if there was a fun thing to do for me and them that made use of that slowness, that ability to spot or be still, that would be cool.”