From the National Forum for Biological Recording Nominations have opened for the 2018 UK Awards for Biological Recording and Information Sharing, with a closing date of 31st July 2018. This is an excellent opportunity to promote the painstaking work of recording groups and individual recorders across the UK. Developed in 2015 by the National...
Purple Ramping-fumitory is a nationally scarce and endemic to the UK, the only place it grows naturally in the world. It is an annual plant which used to be widespread in the mixed farming and arable areas of Britain. However, during the last 50 years it has undergone a drastic decline throughout its former range...
Significantly for us the data is used to advise local forward planning, development control, conservation targeting and decision taking by the local authorities in line with their legal duties to biodiversity. Directly impacting on wildlife in the Liverpool City Region.
The LCR Ecological Network Way back at the tail end of 2016 the Liverpool City Region and West Lancashire approved the creation of an Ecological Network. The information behind this Network was in part backed up by the wildlife recording effort of the many individuals regularly sending in their wildlife sightings to us or otherwise...