Biodiversity policy UK: State of the UK's birds 2012
A range of UK agencies and NGOs have produced the State of the UK's Birds 2012, summarising status and trends. Big emphasis on the role of volunteer recording and citizen science.
A range of UK agencies and NGOs have produced the State of the UK's Birds 2012, summarising status and trends. Big emphasis on the role of volunteer recording and citizen science.
There is a loose UK network of organisations collecting and communicating data. A key focus is the UK Defra Non-Native Species Secretariat (NNSS)
Recording Invasive Species Counts (RISC) programme. In collaboration with the NERC CEH - Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (the Biological Records Centre) - it provides reporting software that gathers information - with links to the National Biodiversity Network. Species and corresponding organisations collaborating in RISC are: /more.....Animals:
Plants:
And outside the RISC programme, there are other mapping and recording schemes that capture invasive data:
These are the citizen science/mass observation projects. There are many more species listed, research project and eradication initiatives listed on the GB Non-Native Species Secretariat site.
UK invasives monitoring: the Observer newspaper has brought a focus on citizen science in its annual ethical awards initiative, asking members of the public to feed observations on a range of species into corresponding organisations. Guardian article as well.
The UK Living With Environmental Change (LWEC) network has provided a list of current and emerging knowledge sources on environmental research and related projects - includes reference to forthcoming information on use of information from the OPAL citizen science project in the Water Directive and on ecosystem approach data for UK river catchments.