Project & IT Support Officer
North Wales Wildlife Trust - Bangor office, Bangor, Gwynedd
Office space available at NWWT's Bangor Office, but with considerable flexibility re. home-working (probable short-term requirement)
£21,268-£22,169 FTE (see advert for full details)
Closing date: Monday 10 January 2022
Could you help ensure that all IT and related document management/storage processes are well-managed for both the Stand for Nature Wales project and the Wildlife Trust as a whole?
Aberduna Office & INNS Administrator
NWWT East office, Maeshafn, Denbigshire
£16,764-£17,422
Closing date: Monday 10 January 2022
Could you help ensure the smooth running of the Wildlife Trust’s Aberduna office, and provide administrative support to NWWTs invasive non-native species (INNS) projects?
Rooks are in trouble and need help. They have been moved from Green to Amber in the recently published Birds of Conservation Concern 5 and are classified as Vulnerable on the IUCN European Red List. Here in Wales, they appear to be in more trouble than elsewhere. The Breeding Bird Survey (BBS) index for Wales fell by 58% during 1995–2018, accelerating after 2010, and our rate of decline is considerably greater than in any other UK nation.
To try and establish why the decline has been so rapid here; to map out in greater detail the distribution of Rook and to create a robust breeding population estimate in Wales, the Welsh Ornithological Society (WOS) is running a breeding Rook Survey during the springs of 2022/2023. It will be a tetrad (2km x 2km) based survey and, across Wales, a total of 563 tetrads will need to be surveyed as a minimum.
Biodiversity Officer Temporary (until March 2023) - Ref: 21-515
Directorate: Environment Department (Planning, Public Protection, Transport and Countryside)
Service: Environment
Closing date: 10:00 am Thursday 13/01/2022
Salary: £24,982 - £27,041
Every month we will be providing maps and information about poorly recorded monads in North Wales to encourage recorders to get out to locations with few or zero records. Go to the library section of the website to access previous Monad of the Months.
Communal sheep folds: Buarth Fro Wen (image: Nigel Beidas)
Luis’ Patagonian birds: the diucon
A fine tope near Llanystymdwy
Ballooning money spiders at Cors Erddreiniog
An Anglesey Aurora and some historic Welsh northern lights
More about bird-decorated clocks
Sort and long term erodion in southern Llyn
Fungi galore in Fairyland
Waunfawr herbalists
Common darter - how late is ‘late’?
Quotes from the quagmire
Darwin’s pink snow on the increase
Erosion in Llandudno
We’d love to congratulate Andrew Graham, vice county butterfly recorder for Meirionnydd, for being awarded the NBN Wildlife Recording Award (Terrestrial) at this year’s NBN Conference on 24th November. Andrew’s nomination was submitted by us and so it’s fabulous to see North Wales honoured in this prestigious national award.
The award is recognition of Andrew’s hard work and dedication to recording and collating wildlife data, with a particular passion for butterflies and moths. He has been County Recorder for over 20 years, currently covering moths for Meirionnydd, and butterflies for Meirionnydd, Anglesey and Caernarfonshire. His friendly manner has helped countless volunteers across North Wales, whilst his fabulous website helps those interested in Lepidoptera, containing up-to-date information compiled and shared by Andrew.
Cofnod would like to say a massive thank you to Andrew, for his amazing efforts verifying records and sharing over half of million records with us.
Well done Andrew!
CEH and partners are developing an interesting online tool to help recorders identify areas worth investigating for recording. The model takes habitat, surrounding records and access into account.
The "Early Access" version works for Butterflies and Day-flying Moths.
Definitely a tool worth checking as it develops.