An app uses lichen to help monitor air quality in places like the New Forest.
"I love lichens. I really do."
Which is fortunate, as April Windle is currently peering down a magnifying lens on a muddy bank in the middle of a slightly damp New Forest.
"I've been lucky enough to spend nearly a decade actually studying and appreciating them," she says.
Those 10 years have brought a wealth of knowledge which, as a member of the British Lichen Society, April is keen to share.
"They look like plants," explains April. "They sit within the biological kingdom fungi.
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