Welcome to our news page. If you have a news item that you would like added to this page please contact us.
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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In 2016/17 Environment Systems was commissioned on behalf of the Powys Nature Partnership (PNP) to review the Powys Local Biodiversity Action Plan written in 2002. As part of this process they undertook habitat network analysis for Powys excluding Brecon Beacons National Park, for grassland; woodland; wetland and heathland. A full explanation of the methodology extracted from the draft General Action Plan (GAP) can be found in the BIS Library, or click here.
BIS has now developed a publi
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Due to government advice concerning the Covid-19 outbreak, BIS staff are working at home. Commercial and partner services will continue as normal. If you need to contact us please email; info at bis.org.uk
With the fast changing advice concerning the corona virus, BIS will make a decision nearer the time regarding each event, depending on the advice/requirements at the time. If you are booked onto an event we will contact you beforehand. It is likely that events in the foreseeable future will be postponed until a later date.
We have several recording days and two ID events across the BIS area in 2020. Many recording days are on private land, where the owners have given us permission to visit record all species. we are also teaming up with Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust for recording events in VC47. All events can be seen on Facebook or the Events tab above.
Our latest selected under-recorded squares all contain less than 20 records. Can you help by recording your wildlife sightings in these squares? More details on our Survey a Square area of the website.
This CEH report for Welsh Government (WG) shows the importance of the data held by the Welsh Local Environmental Records Centres (BIS, Cofnod, WWBIC & SEWBReC). The report is a review of the contribution species records, held by the Welsh LERC's, make to ERAMMP (Environment & Rural Affairs Monitoring and Modelling Programme) Evidence Needs. In 2019-20 the Welsh LERCs were funded by Welsh Government to contribute LERC species data to the ERAMMP project.
To read the report click here. For
The BIS events for 2020 are now up on our website. We've recording days across the BIS area, along with ID days. Click on the Events tab above.
