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We are planning to run recording days in August and September and have four sites to visit. Numbers will be limited and we have new procedures in place and you must book on to attend. We are also hosting two ID events using Zoom.
See our events page for details.
The first official red list for mammals has been compiled by the Mammal Society. It's sobering reading with 11 of the 47 native mammals at imminent risk of extinction.
The Red List for Great Britain has received authorisation on behalf of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) at a regional level. This is significant as it means that the threatened British species have been identified using the same robust, internationally-agreed, system that is applied to classify
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BIS has received its Accreditation Certificated from the Association of Local Environmental Records Centres (ALERC). For further details go to the ALERC Website.
'The ALERC Accreditation system identified a set of standards against which LERCs can be assessed. The criteria cover organisation structure, principles of continuous improvement, data custodianship and data services. It builds confidence in LERCs as bodies which hold biodiversity information in trust for society and that they manage p
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The nationally scarce spider, Sardinidion blackwalli has been recorded
in Montgomeryshire! It's a first for VC47 Montgomeryshire, a first for
the BIS area and we have only one other record for all Wales in Aderyn. A good
spot by Tammy Stretton.
Local Environmental Records Centre Manager
The Biodiversity Information Service (BIS) is the independent Local Environmental Records Centre (LERC) which acts as the focus for the collation, management and use of information on the wildlife of Powys and the Brecon Beacons National Park.
We are looking for a suitable candidate for the permanent, full-time post of BIS Manager to be based at our Brecon office in the beautiful Brecon Beacons. This is an opportunity to work in a well-established and fo
The Long-horned bee, Eucera longicornis, has been spotted in Brecon by Keith Noble, who saw this first vice county record in his garden. It is rarely seen or recorded in the BIS area, this being only the 11th record we hold, of the 103 records for all Wales in Aderyn, our database. It has been seen more recently in the BIS area, in Radnorshire, at Gilfach Nature Reserve, and in Monmouthshire in Pandy north of Abergavenny - the easterly edge of the Brecon Beacons National Park.
The male &
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BIS received 1482 wildlife records for this event on 30th May, which marked the start of Wales Nature Week 2020. Most of these records were submitted to us using the LERC Wales App and BIS Wired, and must be a record number received by these methods in one day.
Thanks to all who took part, keep sending us your records and help put wildlife on the map!
Birds featured strongly in our top 10, with Blackbird and House sparrow being the top two species recorded.
A list of all species recorded in Wales
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The Spring/Summer 2020 newsletter is now available to read. Visit the Library on the BIS website to download a pdf or visit the 'issuu' site to read it in magazine format.
Wales Nature Week begins on Saturday 30th May and runs until Sunday 7th June. The week starts with an all Wales Garden Bioblitz over the 24hours of Saturday 30th May. Join in this all Wales survey to give a snapshot of garden nature in Wales for Wales Nature Week. For more details see our events page.
NRW have published this red data list from a wide range of data-sets including NRW monitoring data, citizen science and previous projects. Red Lists are a key tool for addressing biodiversity loss, enabling us to identify and prioritise those species most at risk. NRW intend to use this list in their advice to Welsh Government and for internal conservation prioritisation.
Visit the BIS Library to download the pdf.
The Red List identified three main habitats as important for stonewor
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