As demonstrated at the Cofnod Conference - Rich Burkmar's, useful computerised version of the FSC (Sherlock) Earthworm key.
Photo North East Wildlife.
The NBN are keen to hear the views of biological recorders to learn how their interest in recording developed and is sustained.
Please visit the link to find out more about this survey and to access their questionnaire.
Over the coming months Buglife Cymru will be working in partnership with organisations and individuals to develop a new Invertebrate Conservation Strategy for Wales, and would very much appreciate your help and input at this early stage in the process. The attached questionnaire provides an opportunity for you to tell them what your priorities for an Invertebrate Conservation Strategy in Wales would be, and what you consider are the main issues/barriers.
Please complete this questionnaire by Friday 20th November and return it to Clare.
The latest news on North Wales dragonflies and damselflies. Vagrant Emperor (Anax ephippiger) on Bardsey!
Photo Steve Stansfield.
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Some of this year's Cofnod Conference Presentations available for download as PDFs:
Debbie Evans: Rust Fungi
Allan Pentecost: Algae & Lichens of the Snowdon Massif
James McConnell: NatureSpy
More talks to follow.
Are you interested in Environmental Education?
We have an opportunity for you to assist the OPAL Community Scientist (Bob Griffiths) to deliver the exciting OPAL (Open Air Laboratories) programme across North Wales.
The work will entail working with Schools, Community Groups and other organisations to Educate, Inform and Collect Scientific Data, using one or more, of the OPAL Surveys.
OPAL is a Lottery Funded UK wide Citizen Science Programme, coordinated by Imperial College London, and administered locally by Cofnod.
You will receive free training in all delivery of all OPAL surveys.
We work bilingually across North West Wales.
For more information on the OPAL programme please visit the OPAL website or contact Bob Griffiths to find out more about volunteering for OPAL
The Cofnod Conference Programme now available to view here.
This event is now fully booked, but a reserve list is in operation, so it's still worth booking if you'd like to take a place which may become available.
The New Zealand Flatworm was introduced into the UK in the 1960s and feeds on earthworms. We need your help to find out how far this flatworm has spread and what influence it is having on the environment.
New Zealand Flatworms attack earthworms by wrapping their bodies around them and secreting digestive mucus to dissolve them before consuming them.
New Zealand Flatworms are usually found under pieces of wood, stone or polythene or lying on bare earth often curled up like a Swiss roll. They leave slime circles where they’ve been resting.
Amazingly, New Zealand Flatworms can survive for over a year by shrinking in size to as little as 10% of their full-grown body mass until they find another earthworm.
We need your help in finding out where they are.
While it is hard to control New Zealand Flatworm once present, learning more about their distribution can help target initiatives to prevent further introductions via gardens, soil movement etc.
Salary: £9843.60
Closing date: Wednesday 14th October 2015
Enthusiastic Trainee Officers needed to support the delivery of ‘The Biodiverse Society’, a partnership project between the Lancashire Wildlife Trust, Lancashire Environmental Records Network, and Merseyside BioBank, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.