An article in the recent National Biodiversity Network (NBN) News highlighted a particular case study that caught my eye. The article discusses a piece of work developed undertaken by The Rivers Trust in partnership with the NBN team to make Atlas driven data layers available on ArcGIS Online, a system I have recently been working...
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...