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The 2018 Conference, on Welsh Woodlands and their birds will be held at Neuadd Reichel, Bangor on Saturday 3 November. Places are likely to be sold out several weeks in advance and priority booking for WOS members is now open (£30 + VAT), with general booking for non-members opening on Saturday 1st September (£35 + VAT). As usual, they have reserved six free places for 16-25 year olds and if you’d like to apply for one of these please email Keith Noble at knoble.knbtinternet.com directly rather than follow the Eventbrite link – and free means no VAT! Tickets can be paid for by credit card or cheque – please go to Eventbrite to book.

This is a one year contract post for a 0.6 FTE (21 hours per week) Full Stack Developer to work on Aderyn - a website serving Welsh biodiversity data to the general public and logged-in users.

The post is working for the Local Environmental Records Centres Wales consortium and is hosted by South East Wales Biodiversity Records Centre Ltd (SEWBReC), based at their office in Talbot Green, Pontyclun, Mid Glamorgan.

The closing date for applications is 3rd September 2018. Use the link to find out how to apply.

Lots of Odonata history in this issue and a plea for information on historical records in North Wales.

Cofnod are pleased to announce the launch of the LERC Wales smartphone app. Based on the iRecord system, it has been adapted by Welsh Local Records Centres to provide a bilingual interface, using your phone’s GPS to locate where you are and an online species dictionary and photo upload to make a note of what you’ve seen. You can access your mobile records through iRecord and the data are synced with our database at Cofnod and the other Welsh LERCs if you’re recording further afield. The app is free to download from Google Play and Apple App Store and we hope you’ll enjoying using it to record our wonderful wildlife when you’re out and about in Wales.

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Latest news on Welsh drought wildlife.

TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is to come to North Wales, as part of the first independent audit of its kind in the UK involving Citizen Science. His goal is to highlight the extent to which the nation’s species are under threat.

On 20/07/2018 he’ll be coming to Cemlyn, Great Orme and Pensychnant, three of 48 sites across the country he’ll be stopping off as part of his UK Bioblitz – nature reserves are not enough! Campaign.

Lastest dragonfly news from North Wales.

The placement is for 10 months (start date 4th November 2018) and is paid £100 per week. It's ideally suited to a student looking for a work placement as part of their course/year in industry...