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North East Wildlife Recording Conference 2014 Katherine Pinnock - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
North East Wildlife Recording Conference 2014 Katherine Pinnock - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
North East Wildlife Recording Conference 2014 Katherine Pinnock ERIC North East Coordinator Who are we? Katherine Pinnock And a team of ERIC North East Coordinator wonderful Susan Keeton volunteers! ERIC North East Officer About the
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About the Conference…
Opportunity to hear about recording activity and projects across the region Get involved with new/different recording schemes Find out more about what ERIC North East does, what we’ve been up to over the past year and how you can get involved
A celebration!
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What does ERIC North East do…
We work with recorders and recording groups to collate wildlife records and habitat data for the region
Hold over 2.5 million species records
Promote wildlife recording across the region and encourage more people to become involved Funded through grants, service level agreements and fees from one-off data requests
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What area does ERIC cover?
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Where does the data come from?
Without their hard work, we would know far less about the natural world than we do today.
- Voluntary recording community
- Wildlife groups and societies
- Organisations who collect ecological
data as part of their normal business
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New datasets shared with us in 2014
Northumberland Bat Group And frequent updates from
- ur regulars
Lots of new individual recorders Dragonfly Recording Network Alnwick Wildlife Group
Thank you!
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Who uses the information?
Wildlife recorders and recording groups Ecological consultants Nature conservation organisations Local authorities Academics
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Who uses the information?
500 requests for data to inform planning applications and development Data supplied to inform 10 academic research projects 34 requests for ecological data to inform biodiversity and conservation projects across the region Informed the work of 6 local authorities and 2 government agencies
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Fancy submitting your sightings?
www.ericnortheast.org.uk/wildlife
Submit a photo with your records!
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Explore other people’s records…
www.ericnortheast.org.uk/wildlife
Over 2000 sightings logged already
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But I already submit my records to…
You don’t need to send them to us too – we will likely receive them via these organisations anyway
Butterfly Conservation North East Reptile & Amphibian Group iRecord
- Etc. etc.
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This year’s events
Lindisfarne Wildlife Event – small mammals & birds Seashore Explore, St Mary’s Island Big Watch Weekend whale & dolphin survey Brierdene Bioblitz, North Tyneside Glow Worms, Thrislington Nature Reserve Fantastic Fungi, Castle Eden Dene Winlaton Mill Bat Walk Greatham Creek Seal Walk We run these in partnership with recording groups and
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We can help…
Can put you in touch with experts and County Recorders and recording groups Small Grant Scheme Annual North East Wildlife Recording Conference Advise on your own database management if relevant Supply additional data to enhance your
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Small Grants
- To fund volunteer recording which improves the
quality, quantity or coverage of voluntary recording in the North East.
- Wylam Community Orchard – invertebrate surveying & resources
- Local bat recorder – bat surveying equipment
- Northumberland Wildlife Trust - entomology identification training
- North East Dormouse Project – dormouse survey equipment
- Northumberland & Tyneside Bird Club - "Birds of Northumbria" atlas
- Durham Wildlife Trust – otter survey
£2,000 pot
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Plans for 2015…
Continuously working on improving data management and quality Work more closely with ecological consultants to improve our data services Promote new online wildlife recording portal Launch mammal recording app with Newcastle College
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Thank you!
Please feel free to put your feedback
- r questions in the Comments box