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Grow Wild has thousands of free seed kits to share so people can transform their local spaces into beautiful, inspiring and colourful wild flower havens. Supported by the Big Lottery Fund and led by Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; Grow Wild is an exciting four-year programme that will bring people together to sow UK native wild flowers. Grow Wild believes that together we can transform and bring colour to where we live: turning unloved spaces into wildlife-friendly wild flower havens.
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Identification Trainers for the Future is a new work-based training programme for individuals who would like to develop a career in the UK biodiversity sector. It aims to address the critical and growing shortage of wildlife identification and recording skills.The programme is led by the Museum in partnership with the Field Studies Council and National Biodiversity Network Trust.
The National Hedgehog Survey is being
launched this year and is looking for volunteers/recorders who would be interested in getting involved?
The University of Reading
and Nottingham Trent University, in collaboration with People’s Trust for
Endangered Species and British Hedgehog Preservation Society are conducting a
National Hedgehog Survey, which aims to map the occupancy of hedgehogs across
England and Wales and to further investigate the relationship with badgers. Download the V... more
The Brecknock Moth Group website has been redeveloped by BIS and is now live. Click here to visit the new site. As well as information on local events and guides to recording moths, you can see a county list of moths recorded in Brecknock, view the records and map distributions.
Please contact BIS if you would like a similar website for your local recording group.
On 17th June Keith Noble, Breconshire Dragonfly recorder, recorded Hairy Dragonflies at Llangorse Lake.
The
new Atlas of Dragonflies showed that Hairy Dragonfly had been recorded
in this square SO12,
before 1991, but not since. There were no other records for Breconshire
VC42 but
it is present in Gwent some 20 kilometres to the south.
On 23 May 1959,
D.Kyle recorded this dragonfly by the Llangasty car park, and
the species was noted again in July 1964. So 50 years after it was last
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Thanks to Kirsty Williams AM
Brecon &
Radnorshire, Leader of Welsh Liberal Democrats Party for her support in attending the launch.
BIS
was able to demonstrate the website and wildlife recording tools to
people from a wide range of organisations including local schools and
community project officers, with the hope of raising awareness and
promoting wildlife recording.
John Bishop of the MBA found the
invasive non-native brown seaweed Undaria pinnatifida (Japanese kelp
Wakame) at Holyhead marina on the visitors berths yesterday (11th June 2014). He was surveying
there as part of a Welsh Government funded project (Resilient Ecosystems fund)
surveying marinas in Wales for non-native marine species.
This is the first record of this
species in Wales but not surprising as it is has been found in several other
parts of the Irish Sea recently. More informat... more
The Vincent Wildlife Trust have recently embarked on a two-year feasibility study to identify specific locations in England and Wales that would be suitable for future pine marten reinforcement. The first project newsletter is now available. Click here to download it.
